> The alternative is the freight carriers tell them to f off. I am sure the owners of the railroads imagine themselves to be bootstrapping heroes of capitalism

> The alternative is the freight carriers tell them to f off. I am sure the owners of the railroads imagine themselves to be bootstrapping heroes of capitalism, but the deal when the United States created the railroads and gave them 175 million acres of land was that " ... the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same."