CSX Detroit Division: What's Its Fate?

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know if there is an offer on the table to anyone to buy CSX's Michigan line? I know CSX tried to abandon it in '85, but CP has used it since as a route through the U.S to Chicago. There are only 8-10 CSX trains daily, and I was wondering if anybody knows of a possible sale, or is the enevitable coming?
Eric
Conrail Rules!!

[kenneo]

If the CP is still using it, and CSX is also running trains over it, it stays. Even if CSX quits the tracks, CP then has rights over it and it stays. CP can then buy it if it wants.

[CShaveRR]

Eight to ten trains a day isn't exactly going to put this line on the chopping block. Some of that stuff, like the West Olive coal trains and the Dow Chemical business, is pretty lucrative.

CP uses a number of different routes to get its trains from Detroit to Chicago, even running some trains over its competitor (CN). Still, I've heard that sometimes there's more CP business than CSX. I'm not sure if that is true between Detroit and Grand Rapids, but I wouldn't doubt it for a minute on the line from Holland to Porter.

That's the line that I'd be concerned about!