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by AnimalMuppet 49 days ago
The US, before deregulation, had a whole lot of railroads going bankrupt. This was partly because factories closed but the railroad couldn't abandon the line that served those factories, because of regulation.

I mean, they are still regulated, and they still have to go through regulators to abandon a line (IIUC), but it's much faster than it was.