>>1750786>start busting the railroads into smaller carriersWhat, if anything, would that do? That would probably de-stabilize jobs and pensions if handled poorly, will put few, if any, railroads back into service, and won't really make any big infrastructure improvements.
Even putting railroads back into service would be an iffy proposition. A lot of the rail-to-trails stuff is actually on leased land from the railroad, and I can't imagine the blowback it would get if those MUPs got torn out for active railroads again.
