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>> nor does seeing UP power signify anything other than the trade-offs in locomotive hours that are so common today<< You might very well be correct,...I certainly have no hard info to support that any contractural agreement exists for trackage rights for UP on subject route... But, let me tell you what I saw.... Two separate days of the week,..approx 11:50 AM....West bound mixed freight with two UP units as power, grinds to a halt where the double track chokes down into one single track,...and waits. Then, on track #2, westbound mixed freight having two NS units as power, overtakes the standing train,..after which the standing UP train pulls out behind it... To me this looks like "favored son" type treatment, where the "native" train gets priority over one "visiting" via trackage rights,...though I'll admit...I'm just guessing.. Compounded by the observations that many of the other trains observed over this route during 3 weeks had NS featuring a "mixed bag" of motive power units,..often like "two NS and one conrail" in a trio, even "one Illinois Central and one NS", and even "all NS, but of WIDELY spread vintage " It just strikes me as peculiar that a road that will field "mixed nuts" for motive power otherwise, would bother to run the matched set of UP units as nearly the ONLY coordinated set of all alike units over this route...
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