And with all those positives, we have to ask, why hasn't someone proposed doing something like this before?

Yeah, and that's where we need to do a little bit of rewind to consider both the history of rail mergers in the United States since deregulation in the early 1980s, as well as sort of like what this specific merger actually looks like.

And I guess what it looks like in a general competition standpoint relative to a lot of other mergers that many people will have heard of at this point.

So the first one is that the U.S. rail network was deregulated around the 1980s.

And at that time, railroads were struggling.

You know, people preferred driving for the most part.

Huge loss in business.

So as far as this merger, who has the final say as to whether or not it takes place? And let's just go ahead and include, and what should they do regarding this proposed merger?