It's amazing how many of the railroad companies did the absolute bare minimum of passenger travel they were required to do to get as much eminent domain (public

It's amazing how many of the railroad companies did the absolute bare minimum of passenger travel they were required to do to get as much eminent domain (public!) land as they did. There's a station I pass all the time that defined entire neighborhoods and towns by creating passenger connections between them but only ran passengers for exactly ten years because that was that was the bare minimum the law allowed, has sat vacant and unused as a passenger station for a lot longer than it was a passenger station, and has deteriorated so much as to be a dangerous home to the underhoused and an eyesore and a reminder that the cargo companies that stole our public land only think of our part of the country as "rollover".