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Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.
There’s a good argument that the U.S. would benefit from a freight railroad stretching from the East Coast to the West Coast. There may be an even better argument it would benefit from two of them.