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Rail freight - USA - Europe’s Challenge
NEW YORK,NY,USA -The International Herald Tribune, by Don Phillips -Sept 21 2005 :-/ The railroads of North America and the railroads of Europe seem to have only one thing in common: They both run on rails... North American railroads are basically freight railroads designed to haul long, heavy trains. Passenger trains in North America are little more than an annoyance for private-enterprise freight railroads, something forced onto their tracks by government pressure. In Europe, however, almost all railroads are government-owned to some degree, and their main purpose is passenger traffic. Freight movement is little more than an afterthought in most countries... The idea is that highways are terribly overcrowded and only railroads can handle the growing crush of heavy freight traffic. Among other things, the EU has forced railroads to make space on their tracks for competing private freight haulers...
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