Yes, because there's no relationship between actually physical failure and the correct people getting rich. Success is defined as the correct people getting rich and the railroads are successful.
The railroads and the government have colluded for decades to destroy our rail network at the expense of America and for the benefit of a few monopolies. Yes, the railroads want this as it has made them rich. They don't care if they actually ruin our transportation infrastructure as long as the dividend checks keep rolling in, anymore than PG&E cares if they cause forest fires or rolling blackouts. They are the sole monopoly providers of a critical resource that can't actually be allowed to fail. They have profited immensely and they don't really want the American public to find out.
This is literally happening in real time as the railroads just had our president ban their workers from striking with zero concessions to avoid shocking the economy. If you ever wondered who runs our country or who our president really works for, you just found out.
