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   Stephen Sprunk  writes:   
      
   >Notably, the sorts of improvements necessary to make passenger service   
   >viable are the same as what the railroads _already_ need to keep up with   
   >the existing demand for freight service.  And helping them with the   
   >latter would cost taxpayers _less_ than expanding and repairing highways   
   >every year for trucks.  It's only the anti-rail bigots in Congress (and,   
   >to be fair, the Teamsters' lobbyists lining their pockets) that prevent   
   >this win-win-win scenario from happening.   
      
   Don't locomotive engineers and conductors belong to the Teamsters these   
   days?   
      
      
   umar   
      
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