Combine traffic was diverted as a result of the removal of the unloading ramp. (Combine traffic was new to Watco and was one of several shipments Watco handled) One of the removed active industry spurs was removed on a weekend, Watco said "oops" and "if you pay for it we will put it back." They didn't want to pay what Watco wanted to put it back, nor did they want to spend the money to take it to government regulators. I'm very aware of contract situations and such, and know more than I can disclose here. I have only had the pleasure of dealing with this (PCC/BLMR) and two other Watco operations directly, and while the train crews and, with one exception, the local managers and fine people to deal with and try very hard, the head office does a poor job of supporting them and often leaves them hanging in the wind---as a result, managers are constantly quitting or transferring which further confuses the situation for rank and file employees and customers and movement brokers. I have no problem with anyone making money because that is the whole idea in the first place, but it drives me crazy to see short term quickie gains destroy potential long term profitablility. The problem with railroading that other businesses don't have is this----once it's torn up, it's never coming back. K-mart and screws up and closes a store they shouldn't, they can build another one near where the old one was---that is possibly better anyway. Pull up a railroad line, it's gone forever and with it any potential real or imagined. Railroads get turned into trails that never go away (railbanking is just an end run around property rights, no trail group will give up their trail for a railroad), or if it doesn't get turned into a trail, it gets built on by stores and homes or freeways, or farmers start farming the land again, no matter what, the costs of recovering the land is insurmountable. Then you have to deal with the NIMBYS and all the crap the DM&E is dealing with. So anyway, it's critical that lines that are destroyed are really finished with their duties and not killed off to make a quick scrap or real estate buck.