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[quote user="VerMontanan"] My conclusion is completely logical in line with your specifically asking "will Amtrak reimburse them for the cost of the wasted fuel?"  Why did you state Amtrak, instead of the myriad other entities that could be responsible for the train being there?  And how do you know it was "wasted fuel?"  The train could have been positioned to this siding as a planned event to stage the train for maintenance of way outage or some other event. [/quote] The conductor told me that his train was waiting for Number 21. His statement was crystal clear.  As subsequent facts showed, the train was waiting for Amtrak's Texas Eagle. Had Amtrak not been on the rails, it would not have been a factor.   Irrespective of the cause of the delay, Amtrak's presence acerbated the traffic control issue for the UP.  At a minimum, it was responsible for the incremental fuel burn incurred by the stopped freight train to the extent that it exceeded the fuel burn that would have occurred had Amtrak not been in the picture. According, your attribution of motive to my question is unwarranted. As noted subsequently, Amtrak is not the cause of the congestion on the nation's investor owned railroads. But it acerbates the problem.
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