A $250bn rail merger could help put US logistics on track

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3 Comments

  1. OrganicKeynesianBean on

    As long as it’s not called *Nippon Rail Merger* and we instead call it *Screaming Eagles of America Beautiful Rail Plan for Real Patriots and Nuclear Families Under God Deal*.

  2. Let them cook! On the other hand, can costs stay competitive after the merger. I sure hope so.

  3. DankBankman_420 on

    My understanding of the literature is that Freight deregulation since Carter has been fairly successful and prices have come down even with numerous mergers over the past decades. Hopefully this leads to further productivity increases.

    https://www.theregreview.org/2020/12/14/ellig-forty-years-after-surface-freight-deregulation/

    Considering this is an eastern railroad and a western railroad merging, this will hopefully make transporting goods east to west more efficient.

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