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I saw the STB postings and decisions. TP&W and KJRY failed to come to an interchange agreement so TP&W's Mapleton Industrial Spur is now isolated. To handle traffic to and from Mapleton, TP&W now must interchange with KJRY, probably at Hollis/Sommer. A TP&W locomotive will probably be based at Mapleton but I expect an agreement to be reached soon so TP&W will have trackage rights. Union Pacific has trackage rights and could serve the Mapleton customers directly if they wanted too (they , like C&NW, simply had TP&W perform their switching). Much of the business is to and from UP. TP&W serves Crompton Corp, Degussa-Goldschmidt, Lonza, Caterpillar's foundry and CF Industries (fertilizer warehouse and barge facilities). The Port Group has purchased the original Caterpillar foundry here and some additional land for development of industry and port facilities. At Sommer is the AmerenCILCO E. D. Edwards Station, which gets UP coal trains from Wyoming and occasionally, from the Monterey Mine near Carlinville. Diverging from the UP mainline south of AmerenCILCO is a TZPR spur to "Cargo Carriers" - the historic name for what is now called Mosaic - the result of a merger between Cargill and IMC Global. This facility handles dry fertilizer and gets unit trains. Some occasional salt trains from Kansas may come here too. It used to get grain until AGRI Industries and Cargill dissolved their Agri Grain Marketing partnership in 2003. The ethanol plant has been delayed many times because of regulations and financing problems but it is now expected to begin constructiojn in late winter with completion in 2006. They have a website: www.centralillinoisenergy.com KJRY will not have access to any industry on the Union Pacific-owned trackage between Hollis and Iowa Jct. The only industry served from this line is Keystone Steel & Wire (north end of its wire mill) and UP has TZPR perform switching. DPJ
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