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We moved back to the Phoenix area eight months ago. We lived here before in the early 1980's, and rail freight traffic is up quite a bit since then. Back in the 80's the Santa Fe ran one daily manifest and one small piggyback train (not sure it was even daily). Now BNSF seems to run twice as many trains, including solid intermodal and autorack trains. Business is so brisk over on the UP, they are planning on raising freight rates into Phoenix as high as 100% to chase away some of their business. One of the reasons UP is so congested: They've mothballed the old SP mainline west from Phoenix, forcing all traffic onto the Phoenix-Tucson line.
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