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When you drive past an auto manufacturing plant, the first thing that may come to mind is the products that are made. You visualize cars coming off the assembly line. You might also think of the value of those cars. But remember something else. The value of the LAND on' which the plant is located...It exceeds by far the value of one day’s production of cards.
A railroad brings to mind giant locomotives, boxcars, tank cars, hopper cars, etc. But when a railroad assesses its own value, a large proportion of its worth is listed in the category of rights-ofway, terminals, marshalling yards, roundhouses, and other land and property holdings.
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