Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> Isn't this the Modoc Northern playing out all over
> again? UP finds a sucker, allows them to become a
> "handling carrier" which, in effect, is a part of
> the UP with no identity. (With a handling carrier,
> UP retains the stations as UP stations, sets the
> rates, dictates the division of revenue, fuel
> surcharge, etc. and includes it in the total car
> movement rate.)
>
> This is true with every segment the UP has leased
> to a shortline that I know of in recent years.
>
> Another prime example of why governments shouldn't
> be in the railroad business...they can't even get
> it right within their own DMV's!
>
> Dick Samuels
> www.oregonpacificrr.com

Hello Dick;

Could be, but also in Modoc Norther's situation, it wasn't too smart to be spending big bucks on rebuilding and spraying fancy paint jobs on some old SD9's and GE junkers!

They should have leased something like GP38-2's or GP40-2's!

The money spent on locomotives was precious cash down the drain!