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Article: TFM says it won't play 'the U.S. Game' in Mexico.(Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana)(Rail Update)
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- Railway Age
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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Transportation Ferroviaria Mexicana, the Kansas City Southern-affiliated operator of Mexico's Northeast Railroad concession, "will offer shippers choices that they have never had before," according to TFM Director Brad Skinner. Speaking at the seventh annual Transporte Internacional conference held here March 6-7, Skinner struck a cooperative note: "We will work with all U.S. railroads to convert truck to rail," he said. With the new "NAFTA highway," as Skinner called it, TFM says it intends to help all U.S. railroads grow.
"We do not intend to play the U.S. railroad game of someone winning and someone losing--a game that merely moves revenue around," said ...