"Building America" indeed Wrote:
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> Union Pacific ripped out the signaled, welded
> rail, first class mainline of the Missouri Pacific
> in Kansas to ensure another entity could not use
> it.
>
> "Building America" indeed! This was destruction
> of valuable American transportation
> infrastructure, on par with the legend of ancient
> Rome sowing the soils of vanquished Carthage with
> salt as punishment.
>
> Great post on TO: Old MoPac/U.P. line gradually
> disappeared in '98
>
> How dare un-American Union Pacific cynically
> co-opt our national symbol, the American flag, on
> their equipment as a logo. The UP has no
> allegiance to anyone or anything but profit. Use
> of the flag should be restricted to democratic,
> public institutions.
>
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At the time, conventional wisdom was that all those little towns in western Kansas and Eastern Colorado would dry up and blow away withou rail service.
They seem to have done alright for almost 25 years without it