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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by kevviiinn on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:49PM (#34889469)
According to the wikipedia article, Conrail actually inherited a terrible maintenance situation when the railroads bankrupted and were nationalized. Conrail then proceeded to manage maintenance and got things profitable.

It was doing just fine when Reagan decided to privatize for some reason.

Nationalizing actually fixed the situation so I don't kmow where you got the impression that it made things worse

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrail

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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by jcranmer on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:52PM (#34890004)
I'm talking about nationalization during WW1. Conrail didn't nationalize all the railroads (which did happen during WW1), just the bankrupt Penn Central.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by kevviiinn on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @08:25PM (#34890274)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Railroad_Admin...

This one? Maybe I missed it in my brief skim but I don't see anything negative

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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by jcranmer on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:06PM (#34890626)
Yeah. The Wikipedia page isn't all that great on this topic; I'm going off of my recollections from the book American Railroads, although it's been a few decades since I last read it.
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by kevviiinn on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:14PM (#34890679)
If you know of any material that's available on the internet I would be glad to read it
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Re:EPA Orders Norfolk Southern to Conduct All Cleanup Action... by jcranmer on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:26PM (#34890778)
I apologize, because I don't know of any off the top of my head.
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