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Aren’t the tracks owned by the companies that run the freight trains, rather than Amtrak?
by ericd 4y ago
Aren’t the tracks owned by the companies that run the freight trains, rather than Amtrak?
- notatoad 4y agoyes. and one of the ways to stop letting freight trains preempt passenger trains would be for amtrak to build their own tracks. but as long as amtrack has to rely on operating revenue for that sort of project, it's never going to happen because they can't attract enough customers.
- closeparen 4y agoBuild their own tracks where? Through and adjacent to both natural environments and people's homes. The America where you could do that kind of thing is long gone.