From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   866013149e <866013149e@interpring.com> wrote:   
   >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?   
      
   No. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers merged with International   
   Brotherhood of Teamsters in 2004, but United Transportation Union is   
   separate. Conductors are UTU.   
      
   --- SoupGate/W32 v1.03   
    * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)