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In addition to the BLMR/PCC shuttle which runs on UP between Hooper Junction and Wallula, there are cuts of grain left at Hooper Junction for UP to pick up. The same scenario takes place on BNSF at Cheney and Marshall. Car counts vary throughout the shipping season. What's markedly different is that a UP train doing work at Hooper Junction might delay just one or two other trains ahead of or behind it. (In many cases, the train doing the work will be scheduled behind other trains so as not to cause such delays.) On BNSF, however, doing work off the main at Marshall or Cheney can back up a large number of trains during peak traffic. The option of two main tracks at Marshall is only slight help when there's traffic coming both directions. For BNSF, it's easy money grabbing a couple of cuts of grain without actually having to work the branch and switch the elevators. But that money can not balance the loss when you've got Z, Q, and S trains held up in the process.
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