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0 pointsMBCook9mo ago0 comments

Yep. Federal law requires passenger trains to get priority.

But for some reason the government basically stopped enforcing it like 40 years ago.

So in practice it tends to work the other way.

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strken9mo ago

I've been told that there's a legal loophole where freight trains are built to be too large to fit into overtaking loops, and so don't need to use them.

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