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[quote user="MP173"]NS already has a dandy Chicago cut off in place and that is the ex Wabash line from Kansas city up thru Ft Wayne. I dont know how close to capacity the line is, but with single line ctc and probably short sidings I would guess it is close to capacity.<br><br>TPW is there for the fixing up. However, the BNSF already has the Streator cut off in place. I believe they only run one thru train daily to the NS. The coal traffic comes up from Galesburg thru Mendota and then thru the heart of Chicago, or around on the J. It could reroute via the TPW in some cases, but that would require major work to the line, and sharing the revenue.<br><br>I think at some point the line will be valuable. When? No idea.<br><br>ed<br><br>[/quote]<br> <br> Not claiming any expertise, just going by what i've read, but I think itis the big western roads that dictate eastbound traffic not being handed off in KC, they want the mileage to haul it on eastward, as far as possible.<br> <br> The TP&W on the otherhand (once a BNSF property) seems a candidate to let the western RR's have their cake and eat it someplace other than Chicago too.<br> <br> Suprised that the big boys out west haven't swooped down on some of the abandoned and/or shortlined routes in the midwest, and used them as a means to get even longer hauls further into the east, and avoiding Chicago as a bonus.<br> <br> Bet there would be a lot of popular support among the communities that lost rail service all together, if an Uncle Pete or BNSF offered to retrack an abandoned and forgotten right of way through their town. Nimbies in Rochester notwithstanding. [;)]<br>
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