Clipping

[Derrick J Brashear]

--On Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:26:25 PM -0800 Kenneth Josephson 
<kjosephson at sprintmail.com> wrote:

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> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
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>> Sharing rail rights of way isn't as simple as that, especially in this
>> day of lawsuits. Look at what happened after (Ricky?) Gates ran that
>> Conrail train into the path of a Northeast Corridor passenger train...
>> These days it's all about having exclusive use of your tracks, and while
>> maybe earlier that would not have been the case I can't see that until
>> around 1965 things would have been suitable to that, and probably not
>> even then. The Pennsy quit their commuter service in... 1963 I think and
>> I can't see why they'd want PAT on their rails after that. If they did
>> it would be "give us money, let us run trains". And they didn't even
>> seem to be overly enthused with that!
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> True. But it has worked in San Diego. Plus there is a PAT busway along a
> railroad corridor on the East End. The tracks there have been reduced
> from three or four down to one. You are correct, litigation has ruined
> everything.

Right of way for 4, 3 tracks when busway construction started (or 3 
serviceable) reduced to 2.

-D