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From: David.Black@A.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Railway Communication Lines
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 14:52:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 14:52:48 1986
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Somebody mentioned trackwork between Buffalo and Albany on Conrail and inferred
that Conrail had money.  Conrail does have money (approx. $1 Billion in the
bank at the moment), but the trackwork was paid for in a large part by
the state of New York.  This was in part to run faster passenger trains,
but (last I heard) Conrail had refused to raise the speed limit for passenger
trains even though they're running their freights faster.  I believe New York
also paid for much of the trackwork on the ex-Erie main across southern
New York.

--Dave