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[quote user="A.K. Cummings"]Batooski — Theoretically, the answer to your question is yes, but in practice, not really — at least, not right away. You could conceivably use IC&E north from Owatonna to a connection with the CP, then run trains east down the River Sub and thus bypass Rochester. But the switch at Owatonna faces the wrong way for that, and track conditions on the Owatonna Sub north of Owatonna are very bad. That routing would also be substantially longer. We'll have a good map of this in the December issue that will make it plain, but there's a map of the CP/DM&E/IC&E system at dmerail.com that you can get a look at and see what I mean. Then again, DM&E already had the ability to route traffic around Rochester using IC&E south from Owatonna that would be far more practical than the routing I just described. So it's kind of a non-issue. Unfortunately, many cities have adversarial relationships with their railroads. That doesn't mean those cities can prevent trains from passing through. Rochester tried and lost. Their only remaining option is to appeal to the Supreme Court, but they'd be guaranteed to lose. Rochester isn't a problem in any way, shape, or form. Period. No sense giving them more credit than they deserve. Andy Cummings Associate Editor Trains Magazine Waukesha, Wis.[/quote] First, thankyou for  (finally) a straight forward answer to a straight forward question. My curiousity was simple enough that I was having a hard time understanding where all the friction was coming from.I see from the portion of your text that i have highlighted, you share the same anti-rochester sentiment common to many on this board, which is fine. But, I don't really think that a company such as CP is going to make Mr Schieffer's  bygone hostilities into  a cause celebre or sacred cow just for the satisfaction of tormenting the coalition.If it makes sense to bypass (via existing alternate routing)Rochester and doing so would save CP time, trouble, and  further hassle that they would just as soon avoid, then I am sure that is exactly what they would do.  I don't think that serving Mr Schiffer's  revenge is  high on CP's agenda, no matter how much certain parties might prefer to think otherwise thanks
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