How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
Fifty years ago, there were 71 major US railroad companies. Now just 4 rail corporation control 90% of the market — and two of them are on the verge of merging. Combined, they would have the power to dictate the price of shipping almost anything in America.
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@2.Plus.2.Equals.5
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Railroad territory has been cut throat since it's inception. Everything in modern society hinges on freight cars and trucks delivering those loads. Without that, good luck.
@aeronwolfe7072
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
i AM SO READY TO GET OUT THE TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS
@GoatFarmer2020
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
America 🇺🇸 Home of the Cooperate Monopolies & Private Equity Firms. If you're bank status doesn't read million/billionaire, then please move aside with the worthless, peasant, slave labor. 😂
@thehumanhopes3178
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Things never, EVER get better when this shit plays out.. never will we ever pay less for food, gas, travel, anything and everything… it doesn’t happen, it never will happen
@again5162
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Blah blah blah, this channel has TDS, Biden and Kamala were bloody hopeless
@GatheringGloom
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
No more mergers. All mergers should be blocked from now on.
Covid is just the pathetic excuse corporations with incompetent, corrupt leadership continue to use.
@greengofett
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Aww, that guy thinks that his politicians will listen to their voters…. 🙄🤦♂️
@MrEccentricities
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
every time I step away from the computer it's just perfect union every time I step away from the computer it just automatically plays a perfect union video the same videos every time I heard all of them at this point how do you block a channel!
@minombre5555
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Between mafia-like unions and horribly toxic corporate culture, the average U.S. worker hasn’t a chance.
@Razor454ss
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Consequences of choosing a billionaire.
@mbbno
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Mergers and acquisitions do not benefit employees or customers. Never ever.
Ban all mergers and acquisitions. End this practice of consolidation and anticompetitive business practices.
@joshs3916
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
😢
@chasingthetrains968
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Plus when a new customer wants rail service big corporations are a pain to deal with.A small railroad will get you your service a whole lot faster
@arc4055
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Call a spade a spade and vote for those candidates that support to destroy that spade. There i solved the problem.
Call lobbying as corruption. Lobbying is that spade. No more lobbying, super PACs and every government official must be scrutinized heavily for any conflict of interest.
If you have the people donating vast sums of money for people to be elected, as the same ones that are consolidating control and wealth, you have a problem. Its time people realised that both sides of political spectrum are bought out by rich people. In the end it's a softbank like strategy to investing. They fund everyone in a promising business segment. Then it becomes about the business segment surviving not the individual business. The rich don't care which horse wins the race because they have bet on both (all) of them.
People here are focusing on the duopoly emerging in railroad industry after NS and UP merge but you have that same duopoly in politics. And that should be more worrying than the railroad duopoly.
@RickyG_RailTX
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
0:28 Virtual Railfan may write a Youtube comment saying “Please take this video down” even it’s under fair use.
@UrsaBella
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
everything is controlled by the blackrock. pay no attention to the legal names. it is a monopoly and it will start getting centralized. that will be the end of things. govts worldwide are owned by transnational entities all owned by the same groups
@Its_Just_Lane
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Unbearable intro music. Why would producers allow such an overlap with audio? Come on guys, I know you’re better than this.
@EV_Dreams
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
We regulate state power companies, and we pour billions into public roads. There’s no reason for us to have abandoned public rail as a country.
@EV_Dreams
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
I say let them merge but slather them in regulation. The answer is and has always been nationalization. The USA is far too large for private enterprise to effectively run rail at profit. Government run rail that would even break even would be far more efficient and a large net benefit to the people. Trains aren’t just for freight, they’re for moving people. You could run rail with half the money we blow on roadways. Plus, with viable public transportation, the roadway infrastructure costs would plummet.
@crusaderanimation6967
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Apparently Corporations can even ruin best mode of transportation there is.
@LindaBirkholz-do5sn
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
We have to stop these mergers have you noticed the more money these billion Aires get the more evil they become good example the raping of children all billionaires in the Epstein files the largest market in the world for trafficked children is the united states. Shame on these evil men
@CodAddict324
April 14, 2026 at 9:43 am
Usa 😢 money killed you