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Kummant interview, New York Observer 8/13/08
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Amtraxmainiac: Most readings of history will show that the land grants were about the best deal the government ever maide. They were repaid multiple times over by the provision that government freight was carried at half rates, a provision that extended to any station pairing that that had any form of land grant route between it, whether that line carried the freight or not. This provision was finally repealed after WW2. Therefore, to use the land grants as the rationale won't work. Having said all this, however, I still feel that they should be required to handle passenger trains on a no cost to them basis, whether they like it or not. I do not believe that they have any "moral" obligation to spend their money for it, however. Nor for that matter do I believe that the state of Arizona and its various cities and counties, as an example, have the right to try to extort overpasses and underpasses out of UP or stand in the way of the second main construction just because they do not like the increase in number of freight trains. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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