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Last week, at the Rail Shippers Association national meeting, the railroad presidents gave their position on mergers. BNSF said the level of current interchange service between railroads is unacceptable and that mergers have improved service and reduced rates. CN said that mergers are inevitable and when it happens the railroads had better get it right. The NS said the rails need to increase value for industry without mergers. The UP said the rail industry is struggling to find the right formula, but must do so without mergers. <br />The interesting part of all this is, that the BN-ATSF merger was successful and worked very well. The CN-IC merger was successful and worked very well. The UP-SP merger was a disaster and the NS-CSX splitup of Conrail was a disaster. So now the UP and NS say mergers do not work, "just look at what happened to us". <br />Actually, the UP does not want a merger because they would lose business. The UP interchanges more freight to the eastern railroads than BNSF and after a merger the business would be more equal. The UP brings up their past failures with merger to lobby against new mergers. The BNSF and the CN have had no problems with mergers. <br />The shippers of this country will force the mergers as they want to deal with one carrier for their contracts just like they have with trucking companies.
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