[maine-iac7]

Railroads move cargo for a lot less than $ .10 per mile

Railroads were all but killed starting 50 years ago - thanks to the teamsters...

had that not happened, we'd have a balance today of rail and road -

[Chief Engineer]

Railroads are moving more freight today than ever before. They are increasing their capacity to accommodate the increase.

The railroads are doing this almost entirely with private, non government funds. (An then they pay taxes on it!)

We don’t need the government to get involved in this. Let the private sector do what it can do so well.

[org.whodat]

had that not happened, we'd have a balance today of rail and road

Wrong, and wrong again. The railroad had all their system in place and refused as the have today to adapt to the times. Railroads may be cost effective on large bulk, but they are not efficient when it comes to time and distance. In short it was taking a train load of freight on the order of three weeks from the west coast to the east coast and that was just time on the train. You would spend another week are two getting the containers on and off the train. That was a few years ago but I don't think they have improved much.

[DaGman]

I don’t believe the Teamsters ever represented railroad workers to any significant degree. I believe they are mostly represented by railway unions like locomotive engineers, and others. Maybe I’m wrong.