• aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    It was always private companies. Givt gave tgem lots of land and money, looked the other way at incidents like this, and let them merge like rabbits in the 80s-90s.

    And took passenger off their backs in the 70s, forming Amtrak.

    We need to establish National Trackage Rights for true competition and improved safety.

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      4 months ago

      Selling off Conrail is still an inexplicably stupid decision to me, even looking at it from the full neoliberal brainrot angle.

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        4 months ago

        I worked for them at the end. We called it Clownrail. Former CEO has a Harley dealership.

        Managers got wads of cash, union people got fired by NS if they were union officials.

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      4 months ago

      Don’t we still give them money? They won’t do maintenance on the track unless we do is my understanding.