[CBQ] Re: SP trackage rights

["Paul Nadolski" <pnadolski2719@yahoo.com>]

While I don't know for sure when SP/UP started running over the CB&Q/BN to 
Chicago, I do know that SP handed a lot of traffic to the Soo Line at Kansas 
City in the late 80s, which was hauled to Chicago on the ex-MILW Kansas City 
line.  I saw a LOT of trains at Davis Jct. as a result.  SP tried to buy that 
line from Soo/CP in 1990 but the deal fell through, and I'd guess that is when 
SP started running to Chicago over the BN's Mendota Sub.  The CB&Q line was 
shorter (by about 60 or so miles) than the Milwaukee line, so that was no doubt 
an added bonus for SP.

FWIW, the ex-MILW KC line was later sold to I&M Rail Link, which became Iowa, 
Chicago & Eastern and is now owned by CP again (for now, until EHH decides to 
sell that too...)

Paul Nadolski
Rockford, IL

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "James Vivian" <jvivian765@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how/where the SP gained access from the west to run
> eastward on the Mendota Sub. and when this arrangement came into being?
> I know this must have carried over into the UP merger as I have have
> seen run-through stack trains in the fairly recent past.
>




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