From: cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:42:26 +0000 (UTC), "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.
Here looking at pages 9 and 41 of http://zierke.com/shasta_route may
explain the thinking. Given the taxing policies and the investment
climate, the rational decision was to cut capacity to only that
justified by current traffic. (Page 41 notes that snow clearance on
the Siskiyou Line is the private hobby of the Central Oregon &
Pacific).
Clark Morris
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