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NS Approaches CSX Diamond At Milford Jct., IN on 6/7/19
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Again we are at Grayslake station. This time I used the tripod and the results are much improved over my previous two shots. I filmed the same train as it headed north and returned south an hour later.
It is scenes like this from the old days that I really enjoy, in that they show how I started out and corrected my mistakes. I would like to hear from people that are in this same position today.
A UP-BNSF agreement has preserved competition for decades, UP
says, while calling BNSF’s filing a PR campaign tied to the UP-NS
merger
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BNSF Railway train, led by a Canadian National locomotive, approaches
the U.S. Customs & Border Protection inspection portal at Eagle
Pass, Texas, while slowly rolling across the bridge over the Rio Grande
in May 2019. BNSF has trackage rights over Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific lines to reach Eagle Pass. Bill Stephens
WASHINGTON — BNSF Railway’s bid to have federal regulators review
Union Pacific’s compliance with conditions imposed as part of the 1996
UP-Southern Pacific merger is nothing more than a publicity stunt, UP told the Surface Transportation Board last week.
On Nov. 28 — three weeks before UP and Norfolk Southern submitted
their merger application — BNSF encouraged the STB to take a look at
what it claimed were UP’s longstanding efforts to skirt conditions that
were designed to preserve rail competition in the West.
But UP says BNSF’s complaints have no merit.
“As part of a public relations campaign against the transformative
potential of the UP/NS merger, BNSF chose this moment to ask the Board
to reopen the three-decade-old settlement agreement the Board imposed as
a condition on its approval of the UP/SP merger,” UP told the STB in a
Jan. 7 filing. “Whatever its merits as a PR stunt, BNSF’s Petition
provides no basis for the Board to revisit the terms of the Restated and
Amended Settlement Agreement (RASA).”
Prior to UP’s acquisition of the ailing Southern Pacific, BNSF and UP
negotiated a settlement agreement that granted BNSF trackage rights
over UP and SP routes in order to provide shippers with competitive
options, particularly at locations that were served by both UP and SP.
The settlement agreement was made a condition of the STB’s approval of the UP-SP merger.
BNSF argues that UP has systematically sought to obstruct and diminish competitive options [see “BNSF asks STB to review…,” Trains.com, Dec. 1, 2025].
UP told the STB that the agreement is working as intended. “BNSF
enjoys unprecedented access to customers on Union Pacific lines and
handles substantial amounts of traffic under merger-related access
rights. BNSF provides no basis for the Board to reopen the conditions
imposed on the UP/SP merger,” UP said.
The settlement agreement has successfully preserved competition, UP
argues, citing 80%-plus approval rates for BNSF customer access requests
since 2009, along with evidence that most disputes are resolved quickly
and privately.
UP contends that occasional disagreements are normal between
competitors and were anticipated by the board when it approved the
merger conditions. And the railroad told the STB that there were
instances where it denied BNSF access requests in good faith because UP
did not believe they applied under the terms of the settlement
agreement.
The board has previously set a high bar for any request to modify the
merger conditions, UP says, noting that they require evidence of
merger-related harm, specific remedies, and an explanation of why
remedies are necessary.
“But BNSF’s Petition meets none of these requirements,” UP told the board.
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After the Conrail local passes, a long northbound Norfolk Southern train accelerates from a stop and crosses the diamond. Power is an SD40-2, a C39-8, and an SD40-2 with a high nose. Note the block of "shorty" tank cars and piece of track in the gondola.
At one time, the NYC had a branch line that passed through here, and the ROW is visible crossing the NS. A segment of the line remains to the north to serve a quarry at Spore. A new connecting track off the Fort Wayne Line provides access.
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