[amtrak-official]

Until we can get nationalized Railways, let's do the next best thing and have cities buy up the railroads near them

[amtrak-official]

In other news the only city that has done this, wants to sell their railroads to Norfolk Southern in exchange for the equivalent of 60 years of the revenue from the railroad

A $1.6B Railway Sale Could Fund Cincinnati's Infrastructure

It’s the only city in the U.S. to own an interstate railway. Now Cincinnati wants to sell to Norfolk Southern and create an infrastructure t

Governing

[suspiciousmarmot]

YES, YES YES YES YES YES YES YES now this is progress

[amtrak-official]

No, it is literally the opposite of progress, The City of Cincinnati is SELLING a garenteed revenue source and piece of public infrastructure to a private entity for less than 100 years of what they make from it, to put in a TRUST FUND, that will get embezzled, stolen from and fail to fund the infrastructure projects it promises to fund

[suspiciousmarmot]

Oh shit I read all this completely wrong (my tired ass thought it said they were BUYING the rail from the NF)

Now I feel bad sorry mate

[amtrak-official]

It’s fine, I mostly just wanted to explain in case other people misread the post also