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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan. If a Railroad requests to STB to have a Rail line Abandoned and the STB says no......Can that RR refuse to run their Trains on it even though the STB still says no to the Abandonment. Thanks. [/quote] Railroads will file for abandonment on marginally profitable lines (or lines that have become a nuisance for some idiosycratic reason) once traffic levels have ostensibly shrunk to the point that the line in question is "obviously" no longer profitable. The trick of course is to find a way to eliminate as much traffic as possible a year or more prior to filing for abandonment to guarantee STB approval. The usual scam is to either purposefully price service at a rate that is not competitive with truck rates and/or provide such dismal service that it forces the remaining customers to turn to other transport modes. Once traffic has disappeared or been severely reduced in carloads for a year or more, then the railroad files for abandonment under the guise of there being "no current traffic" or "current traffic does not support viability." Usually at that point the STB will grant the abandonment and the railroad is free to sell the rails for scrap to China. Such has happend to more than a few profitable lines over the last few decades.
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