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Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Wildest CSX Auto Train-With Four Cars!

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At Milford Junction, a tiny eastbound CSX auto train crosses the NS Ex-Big Four Goshen Line. Power: CSX ES44DC #5249 CSX AC4400CW #106

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Norfolk Southern ES40DC Locomotive With Odd Horn Rumbles Over Diamond

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A northbound Norfolk Southern mixed freight rumbles over the CSX Willard Sub diamonds at Milford Junction, Indiana. He is running on the former Big Four Goshen Line, more commonly known as The Marion Branch. Power is a GE ES40DC and a GE C44-9W.

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Experience the action in Morton Grove, Illinois, as a southbound Amtrak Hiawatha train glides by on the historic Milwaukee Road C&M main, powered by two sleek Siemens "Charger" units in a dynamic "pull-pull" setup!

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Exploring Walkerton, Indiana: A Tiny Town with a Huge Secret

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This is a forlorn walkthrough of the railroad interlocking at Walkerton, Indiana. At one time, this was a triangle of diamonds-the NYC Kankakee Belt Line, B&O Garrett Sub, and NKP IMC Line all crossed here. KN tower was located in the middle of the triangle, and was reduced from three stories to two. The NYC became PC and then Conrail; it was finally torn up in 1983. The tower was used by CSX until at least the late 1990's, although I do not know when it was decommissioned. It was not listed as an open office in the CSX timetable as of 4/1/89. Over the years the tower has deteriorated; note the boarded up windows, missing bricks, chucks taken out of the roof's edge, and of course, the broken glass. The faded CSX logo is a foreshadowing of what is to come; the wrecking ball.

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The Ex-NKP IMC Line is now operated as the Elkhart & Western; they rarely come this far north. The line ends at the Indiana 104 crossing about a mile north of here. The short line store tank cars in the woods north of the junction. The IMC Line is so-named because it ran from Indianapolis to Michigan City. Note the electric derails north and south of the diamonds. The northbound home signal was replaced with a color-light signal a year prior to this visit. CSX's double-track ex-B&O mainline remains busy to this day. A section camp is located south of the tracks.

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Thursday, January 15, 2026

BNSF Double Stack Thunders Through Deshler Diamonds | Warbonnet & Herita...

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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Union Pacific Presses Regulators: Block BNSF’s Bid to Reopen UP–SP Merger Case

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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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.