美国铁路公司的合并愈演愈烈。合并的目的是为了增强竞争能力,免遭在剧烈的竞争下破产。最近的洛克岛铁路公司便是由于长年亏损入不敷出,而被迫宣布破产的,其资产分别出售给其他铁路公司和地方政府。合并之所以在八十年代初有如此蓬勃的发展,与七十年代 The merger of U.S. railways is getting worse. The purpose of the merger is to enhance the competitiveness of companies from bankruptcy in the face of fierce competition. The recent Lockerd Island Railway Company was forced to declare bankruptcy due to prolonged losses, and its assets were sold to other railway companies and local governments respectively. The reason for the merger has been so flourishing in the early 1980s, with the seventies