“The late federal appellate court Judge Learned Hand opined that regulatory commissions ‘fall into grooves ... and when they get into grooves, then God save you to get them out of the grooves.’

Washington attorney Bob Szabo, a 30-year enduring pain in the buttocks for freight railroads in his role representing Consumers United for Rail Equity (CURE), is imaginatively close to that ‘god,’ agitating how regulators have too long been in a groove by failing to recognize that railroads today are not the dirt-poor share croppers of pre-Staggers Act days, and that adjustments in regulatory freedoms are appropriate.”

Read Frank N. Wilner’s full article in Railway Age in the pdf attached above.