From: ahk@chinet.com
Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>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.
. . . and I'll tell you why I was thinking of CN-IC Joliet. With a quick
goog, I found a news article on Amtrak's complaint with STB versus CN
that particularly blamed them for problems on that line and the main line.
That was 2012. The filing said STB would monitor the situation, but
nothing came of it. There was probably another complaint in 2010.
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