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NEWS: BNSF buys the Du Quoin-St. Louis line from CN
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by nanaimo73</i> <br /><br />Seca <br />This is on BNSF's website; <br />[quote]QUOTE: BNSF will obtain trackage rights on CN’s main lines between Memphis and southern Illinois. CN will also transfer its Memphis interlocker to BNSF. [/quote] <br /> <br />[quote]QUOTE: Matthew K. Rose, BNSF’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "These agreements provide BNSF with increased capacity and dispatching efficiencies in Chicago and Memphis. In addition, we now can tap CN’s surplus capacity between Memphis and Centralia, Ill., to expand our ability to handle more traffic."[/quote] <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote] <br />This would make sense, as IC Grain from Iowa use this route Iowa-GAL-Beardstown-Centralia-IC South. BNSF freights from Memphis would make perfect sense doing the same. Buying the Du Quoin line would not.
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