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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
      Replying to @RoteCaption

      because they're not the same thing, and don't get used the same way

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      roads are open to any users; only the infrastructure itself must be managed. But rail = infrastructure *and* service

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      Simply having roads is enough for people to use them. Simply having tracks is not enough for good rail service.

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    4. Steel Age Patriarch‏ @RoteCaption 13 Mar 2017
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      If we had tracks & mandated owners provide service as a matter of "Public Convenice and Necessity" w/i fixed parameters it would be.

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    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      Not so, because improvements in rail vehicles, changes in schedule patterns, etc, all need coordinated adjustments to track too

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      Infrastructure and vehicles are tightly intertwined when it comes to rail, in a way they aren't for other modes.

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    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      I strongly recommend Kasai's "Breakup and Privatization of JNR" for more information here

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    8. Steel Age Patriarch‏ @RoteCaption 13 Mar 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      I'm not looking to break anything up, and the US national system is relatively uniform in capability except equipment height.

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    9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      Same with the Japanese one--capability has nothing to do w rationale for breakup

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    10. Steel Age Patriarch‏ @RoteCaption 13 Mar 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      A simple model service would be to make fixed contribution toward capital via a /mile tax credit & let market forces drive service.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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      Are there places in the world where this practice is employed?

      9:24 AM - 13 Mar 2017
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        2. Steel Age Patriarch‏ @RoteCaption 13 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          No because in most of world, rails are state owned.

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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          OK--and where they are privately owned, as in Japan, this is not the practice either.

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        4. Steel Age Patriarch‏ @RoteCaption 13 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Japan, as you note elsewhere, is very densely populated, lineal, and has little use of freight. Very different from US.

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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          Sure...and different parts of the US are very different from each other, too. The dense, linear parts where rail makes sense...

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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          ...would presumably work best with a similar ownership scheme to Japan. No mandatory subsidies for routes which ppl won't use.

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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          On the other hand, if people WANT to take on the burden of keeping an underused rail line active, there's no harm in that.

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 13 Mar 2017
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          As is the case for 3rd-Sector railways in Japan, which aren't profitable, but which are sufficiently beloved to be kept running

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