From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Clark F Morris  wrote:   
   >"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>conklin  wrote:   
      
   >>>>From the Philadelphia Inquirer:  (wwww.philly.com)   
      
   >>>>Seeking to improve on-time performance of its long-distance passenger   
   >>>>trains, Amtrak has filed a complaint against Canadian National Railway, a   
   >>>>major operator of freight trains.   
      
   >>>>Amtrak asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to investigate   
   >>>>Canadian National for delaying passenger trains that operate on the   
   >>>>freight railroad in Illinois.   
      
   >>>>Under federal law, passenger trains are required to receive preference   
   >>>>over freight trains in dispatching of trains. Amtrak has blamed freight   
   >>>>operators for a big drop in Amtrak's on-time performance in the past year.   
      
   >>>Freight trains make money.   
      
   >>Not on that line, they don't.   
      
   >Huh, the Canadian National is definitely profitable and the Chicago -   
   >Carbondale portion or at least that north of the Edgewood cutoff is   
   >part of the Chicago - New Orleans main line.  Whether the line has   
   >been rationalized so much that it can't handle both passenger and   
   >freight or even 50 mph freight and higher speed inter-modal freight is   
   >a different question.   
      
   My error. I was thinking of CN-IC Joliet, a key portion of the ex-Alton   
   that IC did not sell during the Flying Vanengo Brothers fiasco.   
      
   This is the main line, yes, that got notoriously single tracked decades ago.   
      
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