BOB2 Wrote:
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> It's hard to believe the amount of corporate
> carnage that's been inflicted to some of our
> national rail network over the last 31 years.
> Some consolidation was good, and some was
> inevitable, but then our regulators decided to
> ignore very real anti-trust impacts altogether,
> and allow these RR mega mergers.

In the case of the Modoc, the line was so dependent on the Oregon timber industry that its loss was probably inevitable. I knew a shortline operator in Oregon (not the one you might think) and a lumber mill owner that both said the UP/SP combo was the worst thing that ever happened to their business.