slchub wrote:Can you imagine the cost to install and maintain fence along the thousands of miles of "open" rails in the deserts of the western US?Only place where I can rember seeing miles of fence line along the tracks was near the Mexican boarder.
There are times where I travel from just outside the city limits of Salt Lake City to Winnemucca, NV (about 380 miles) and don't see a single car at any of the crossings.