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The other place where relocation and major upgrades can make good economic sense is on main lines through congested urban areas, where outside factors such as numerous grade crossings, RR xings, curves, and constraints on ROW width (that prohibit increasing siding capacity) cause average speeds to slow to a crawl and delays to increase dramatically. <br /> <br />As a matter of interest, some repetitive terminal delays and congestion issues have been known to originate with highly shortsighted corporate politics that obstruct operating practices involving runthroughs. Depends on how the terminal superintendents are evaluated. Intramural turf wars are not uncommon in the RR industry. Forcing lanes into yards unnecessarily in order to get brownie points on an annual review (which has been known to occur), to justify local budget expansions, or to maintain perceived or real power over operations in a region has, can and does occur. No amount of investment in T&S will cure it, either. Sad but true.
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