Jon Wrote:
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> Modoc Northern was prohibited from interchanging
> with BNSF as part of the agreement with their
> short-lived lease, plus there is not any
> connecting track at Stronghold.

Cornerstone Minerals, the perlite shipper in Lakeview, (that generates most of the traffic on the Lakeview line), has a reload facility in Klamath Falls to facilitate shipping via BNSF. They even make a point of saying so on their web site:

[www.cornerstonemineral.com]

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The processing facility is located on an industrial park in Lakeview; it is served by good highway and rail connections. Lakeview and the mill are located on a rail spur operated by a short line carrier that is linked to the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) System.

In addition to the mill site rail spur, Cornerstone owns and operates a trans-loading terminal in Klamath Falls, Oregon which is served by the Burlington Northern Railway (BN), and conecting with the Canadian National (CN). Cornerstone serves customers throughout the West, Midwest, and Canada. Processed perlite is trucked from the processing facility in Lakeview to the trans-loading terminal.

Cornerstone trucks all the ore mined from their pit approximately 40 miles to the processing plant in Lakeview, so truck transportation of the finished product to Klamath Falls is not really a challenge for them.