(Source: Railway Age article by Grady C. Cothen Jr., retired Federal Railroad Administration official, May 24, 2021)
NEW YORK — Unfortunately, short-term financial incentives have driven major railroads away from operating strategies that focus on customer needs, and toward strategies that appear to place operating efficiency alone at the top of priority rankings. Among other impacts, this has resulted in decisions to operate fewer and longer trains and to skip train marshalling practices that limit risk.
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