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I have no knowledge of the specific situation to which you are referring, but one "guess" is that at some point UP took it to a federal court and got the ordinance overturned as applied to their company. Interstate railroads such as the UP are governed primarily by federal law. <br /> <br />Although some state laws also govern these railroads, federal law prohibits any state or local laws that "interfere with interstate commerce" - which unfairly low speed limits could possibly be considered as such since the physical plant and safety equipment is in place to permit significantly higher train speeds. <br /> <br />Again, this is just a hunch of one way they could have gotten around it.... [8D]
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