Tom Rawson Wrote:
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> LBJ had nothing to do with canceling the post
> office contracts. The private railroads all
> petitioned to get out of the mail business,

When did that ever happen? They hung onto the mail
business until the PO Dept. went to the regional
mail sorting centers served exclusively by truck,
air and piggyback, with no sorting enroute, which
is what the rails had been doing. That was 1967.

and
> then would wait a few months and then petition the
> ICC to discontinue passenger trains, citing lost
> mail contracts as a reason.

When the govt pulled the mail contracts, that was the
end. The rails didn't ask for that, by petition or
any other means.

> Private RRs were trying to get out of the
> passenger business long before LBJ came along.