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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TomDiehl Since the routes weren't duplicated, there'd be no reason that such a merger would have eliminated interchange with any other railroad. Prior to breaking up Conrail, CSX and NS were primarily south east US railroads, with little trackage (by percentage) above the Mason-Dixon Line. Conrail never went much below Washington DC. Why your logic would make this assumption is especailly baffling, especially viewing your own third sentence. From 25 May at 20:41: "Right now, BNSF and UP can interchange with both NS and CSX. NS goes places CSX doesn't, UP where BNSF doesn't, etc etc and vis versa. If for instance BNSF merged with NS, those current BNSF shippers would lose some of their "impartial" connections to CSX destinations." After any merger, they'd still be able to interchange. [/quote] Tom, How is it that Murphy understood, but you cannot? Yes, the interchange tracks are still there. But once you have a merger, the merger partner obviously becomes the prefered interchange partner. The other railroad then plays second fiddle, where before they were an equal interchange partner. In other words, if BNSF and NS merge, then NS is the conduit for BNSF traffic. CSX is the odd man out, thus BNSF customers that do business with a CSX customer will be forced to us NS, since NS is ............... You know what, for Tom I better use a different analogy: If Tom dates both Cindy and Nancy, he's getting it from both. But if he marries Nancy, he's no longer "legally" getting it from Cindy. Thus Tom had reduced his notch collection by half when he merged with Nancy.
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