RE: [CBQ] Re:SP trackage rights

[Frederick Ripley <fjr68@live.com>]

List,

After the BNSF merger, UP trains were routed over both the ex-AT&SF and CB&Q (I believe

at the discretion of BNSF).  Today, a day on the ex-AT&SF usually yields a couple of UP trains- not more.

  Do a few UP trains still generally use the ex-CB&Q?

Thanks,

Fred R.

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: mike@schattl.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:49:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re:SP trackage rights

 

SP acquired trackage rights on the BN from Kansas City to Chicago sometime back in 1992-1993 as an adjunctive to it's recently acquired Chicago-St. Louis SPCSL route.

 

UP inherited the trackage rights with the UP-SP merger.

 

One of the early consequences of this arrangement is the drastic loss of traffic on the Aurora Branch, part of the original CB&Q.

With trackage rights on the BN (and BNSF), cars can now be interchanged at Eola Yard instead of at West Chicago.

 

Mike Schattl

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