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LC, given that it is quite common for the prevailing authority to grant trackage rights in the wake of a merger, why do you think that the UP asked for so relatively little on this question when BN and SF were consummating their merger? (The excuse given at the time was so BNSF would stay out of the UP-SP merger, but they didn't truly stay out, did they, and UP <EM>did </EM>surrender the entire Inside Gateway for basically nothing else in return?) Chad, about the detours, is it just good business practice for any railroad to grant these detours, or is there some controlling authority that basically tells the "competing" RRs to make nice if one or the other experiences a washout? On a related question, suppose that one RR owned a bridge that spanned a river (in Portland, the UP and SP jointly owned the Steel Bridge, which had the RR connection going across, and BN uses it, as far as I know of, for free). Do/Are the RR's expected to allow a competing railroad to use that bridge for basically nothing? Or, are there explicit agreements that are made that would allow the granting RR the same permission in another case where the tables are turned?
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