The Challenge of Rail Passenger Service: Free Enterprise, Regulation, and Subsidy

Robert L. Bard
1967 The University of Chicago Law Review  
Virtually every attempt by an interstate rail carrier to withdraw all or any portion of its services over a given route is potentially subject to the jurisdiction of some federal or state regulatory agency.' Moreover, although a carrier would find it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve total abandonment or discontinuance without proof that the service involved only could be provided at a loss, current national regulatory policy sometimes requires carriers to continue present operations, losses notwithstanding.
doi:10.2307/1598935 fatcat:6u2tddrr5redpkki7burswhr3u