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Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage

I meant to send this to the list

The Jordans wrote:
> 
snip >  My thoughts exactly.  The government,
> ANY government, should not have the right to interfere with any business or
> commerce.
> The railroads, I'm sorry to say, has had a history of government
> interference and has had to suffer many reversals because of it.
> 

Clause 3 of the Constitution says "The Congress shall have the power to
regulate Commerce with Foreign nations, and among the Sever States and
with the Indian Tribes."  And I am sure the Contitution of the State of
New York had a similar clause that allowed the legilature to set a guage
of 6' for the Erie Raiload.  The NY Legislature passed the law for the
Erie RR charter.

And I would say that the railroads have suffered from government
interference because of their own actions in the mid to late 19th
century and from political pressures from other groups.

bob gillis


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