and done since the first wood burner ran the only new crews exchanged greeting news of the family good weather and clear track some things do not change this comes as it came when the steam engine ran on this track comes across ohio over the old right away move the new train moving through the old i'm changing forms of corn and grapes and w about i pull out old ties and put in new ones like  an hour shows up on a master control board and this panel all train movement on the next two hundred miles of road is registered remote controls here make two tracks do the work of four and a lady five trains a day which needn't pass an automatic safety here we see the early bird following a local freight early bird moving east on track one side of it and moving east on the same track early bird sweeps  throughout its length the electronic nervous system of the railroad coming through destination new york every day it is taken for granted the morning will arrive on time delivering sunrise food fuel mayo and the standard of living and more of the same tomorrow every day it is taken for granted that what is needed will be on hand it is taken for granted that the train will do its job the country in the city has grown the train will help deliver the future as it has done from the beginning but that is only half the story i like to tell you the other half myself the first to question how would you like to run a business if the government used your tax dollars to build one alongside you then made it tax free and turned it over to competitors and helped him operate and maintain that is a problem the railroad now let me go back a little in railroad history in a nine hundred century the railroads had a virtual monopoly them transportation regulation of the railroads grew up with that monopoly in mind they were necessary laws indeed they made sense half a century ago today the law still control railroad operations but why happened to our monopoly isn't in the passenger transportation freight well what happened to our monopoly as all of us know it has disappeared but you never know it from the volumes of laws and regulations that still govern our railroad operation here isn't there for a modern up to date air for who paid for it by like every airport the taxpayers did the local government to tax money floated tax exempt bonds to build it and got the federal government to put up more tax money from all of us to help in its construction now here is the real term not quite as up to date who paid for that by the railroad to it and it not only paid for it but pays taxes on top of it three million dollars a year to be exact now that makes a difference airports bus terminals truck terminals bridges tunnels ultra modern freeways government bridge waterways the rights of way of our competitors billions of dollars worth of property billion maintained by texas yours and our the right of way of the new york central ten thousand miles of it our bridges our freight terms our passenger terminals our research installation not only built by us not only maintained by us but in addition we pay property taxes of forty million dollars annually taxes that go to support community activities like schools the fire  the police the park the highway the park find a contrast to our competition isn't it and yet the railroads are the last true cost producers of mass transportation up their ships in the st lawrence seaway up the trucks on the highway are not truly producing transportation as inexpensively as a train when you realize how many of their costs are paid for by the taxpayer which brings us back to our question how would you like to run a business if the government built one alongside you and made it tax free and then turn it over to a competitor and help him operate and maintain it that the problem of the railroads now despite outdated policies which restrict us discriminate against us and would have put any other industry out of business the railroads have made progress and you just seen how much we are doing to make even more progress but in a competitive free enterprise society we cannot indefinitely run a business in competition with government financed government simple we ask for an up to date fair krantz protection policy we ask that all forms of transportation pay their way and not only the railroads do or failing that we ask the same tax benefits and the same government support under which other forms of transportation operate today we are not just discussing a four percent return vs a six percent or eight percent return we're discussing the steady expansion and growth of american industry as a whole we're discussing your standard of living in comfort we're discussing your better standard of living and your greater comfort tomorrow you