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Episode 129: East Palestine Derailment

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The History of the Penn Central Railroad

The Penn Central Railroad fails. It takes every other Northeast railroad with it. They become their nationalized and they become conrail, right? And after deregulation and rationalization of some of the railroad, as well as massive cuts to the network in general, conrail is returned to profitability and then denationalized. So we could have because of the way we're going to. This sort of field was narrowing, you know, these railroads that were previously considered huge,. Like the Chesapeake in Ohio or the Baltimore and Ohio, they were merging, creating strange new companies with names like CSX.

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