Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> The lease agreements for divestiture of the SP
> branches in the early 90's prevented the use of
> the lines for anything but freight
> operations...PERIOD. This included speeders and
> any form of passenger train due to the liability
> issues. An exception was made for current and
> prospective customers on a case by case basis.
>
> Not wanting anything to do with the SP (later UP)
> bueauracracy (sp) decided to purchase rather than
> lease both our East Portland (former Portland
> Traction) and Molalla operations. It has worked
> out to be a very good decision!
>
> Dick Samuels
> Oregon Pacific Railroad


Dick... I used to live right near the CORP Siskiyou line and saw a couple of speeder runs, and know of one other before I moved to that location. Also, Amtrak/ODOT had that special run of the Talgo equipment down to Medford or Ashland some years ago. Were changes made to the agreements?