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How Jay Shabat built Airline Weekly, one of the earliest newsletters covering the travel industry

The Long Story with Simon Owens

CHAPTER

The Railroad Industry: A Central Hub of Our Economy

The railroad industry is a central hub of our entire economy, huge industry from what I can tell the companies that operated it are very profitable. They have kind of like a locked in customer base and not kind of like cable companies where, you know, it's probably pretty expensive to let to lay down new rail lines. So there's like a built in almost monopoly, I'm guessing in certain areas and stuff like that. And yeah, just a very, very different from airlines, by the way, airlines.

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