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The Amtrak excursion makes it obvious that NS will happily allow trains to run to Allentown along its right-of-way... for the right price.
I therefore assume Allentown simply wasn't offering the right price. (The right price for regular service is probably a lot of double and triple track, maybe even quad track.)
NS seems on the whole more reasonable than CSX, which has been acting like a dirt path is more valuable than a railroad track. Honestly, I don't think NS would turn down an offer to quad-track the Allentown route with two tracks for freight and two for passengers. (Something which the nutcase morons at CSX were hostile to on the Empire Corridor, because they're deranged.)
I therefore assume Allentown simply wasn't offering the right price. (The right price for regular service is probably a lot of double and triple track, maybe even quad track.)
NS seems on the whole more reasonable than CSX, which has been acting like a dirt path is more valuable than a railroad track. Honestly, I don't think NS would turn down an offer to quad-track the Allentown route with two tracks for freight and two for passengers. (Something which the nutcase morons at CSX were hostile to on the Empire Corridor, because they're deranged.)
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