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<P>What standards exist, if any, for one RR to enjoy "trackage rights" over another RR's line? There are, of course, joint trackage agreements, whereby RR's are instructed to share a line jointly as the receivers of another company's breaking up or one of the two previous company's merging, or concessions that result from the same cause. I'm thinking specifically of the ex-SP line btw OR and CA. Presumably as a result of that sale, UP felt compelled to offer their portion of the ex-WP Inside Gateway to BNSF. However, one of the things I heard about that was that BNSF was still running their trains over the ex-SP line, and that UP had some obligation to let them do this. Is it (or has it ever been) possible for a RR that did not serve a given community to make a contract with a shipper, then force the RR that did serve that community to allow them to run a train over foreign rails? Or is it simply a matter of the serving RR to pick up carloads for any other non-serving RR carriers, and transfer those carloads at a certain point? On the same point, if a regional or very small RR was in a "captive" relationship with a Class I, would the Class I be obligated to do business with the regional, or could the Class I selectively accept or decline to move the carloadings of the regional or municipal lines?</P> <P>Riprap</P>
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