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Lehman tion, Slow-speed short lines contrast with mainline Class I carriers in the Inland Empire of the Pa­ TWIN CITIES-Steve Glischinski cific Northwest-a rugged region surrounding Spokane, Wash" blessed with great natural beau­ WASATCH FRONT-Dave Gayer ty and crisscrossed by a variety of rail operations, Roger Ingbretsen PACIFIC RAILNews • 3 Maersk Lines and Santa Fe joined forces to create a unique promotional train in August. New GP60M 146 was painted by AT&SF in Topeka in a Maersk blue-and-silver scheme; then the unit was sent west and paired with a Maersk stack train for film ing a television commercial in Cajon Pass. The movie train is shown at work at Sullivan's Curve on Aug. 13. Elrond G. Lawrence SP SOD LINE PURCHASE extension of SP's service to due to the loss of the sale. Sao DERAILED: The proposed sale Chicago under the Sao Line Line is a wholly owned sub­ of Sao Line Railroad's Kansas­ deal, and it is expected that sidiary of CP Rail's parent com­ City-Chicago route to Southern there will be wide support for pany, Canadian Pacific Ltd., Pacific fell through, but this SP's new agreement with BN. and CP Rail is currently re­ setback will not keep SP out of Norfolk Southern, which oper­ viewing its operations in the the K.C.-Chicago run. Rio ates joint trackage along the United States. With SP operat­ Grande Industries, parent com­ line with BN, has already given ing into Chicago from the pany to SP, announced a track­ assurances that it will agree to South and West, competition age-rights deal with Burling­ the new deal. will be fierce into Chicago. ton Northern Railroad Co. Un­ Reportedly the Soo Line deal der terms of the agreement, SP fell through because Chicago & MIDDLE EAST CRISIS will operate its own locomo­ North Western Transportation AFFECTS RAILROADS: Sad­ tives and crews over BN's 466- Co. wanted as much as $80 Mil­ dam Hussein, though arguably mile route. The two railroads lion for its interest in a 42-mile not the world's biggest railfan, do not directly compete over segment of the line. In spite of may have given American rail­ this route; SP runs mostly dou­ unanimous ICC approval of the roads a significant boost in blestack trains while BN han­ deal and widespread support their competition with the dles mainly coal and grain. among shippers, C&NW balked trucking industry. Though both RGI is anxious to gain a at Sao's plan to transfer track­ trains and trucks use diesel fu­ western entry to Chicago to age rights with the railroad­ el, truckers estimate that 20 complement its recently ac­ between Polo, Mo ., and KCT percent of their costs result quired Chicago-St. Louis route. Junction, just outside Kansas from fuel bills. Energy-efficient Although disappointed that City, MO.-to SP. C&NW offi­ rail boasts a mere 10 percent of the Soo Line deal could not be cials and industry analysts hold its operating budget goes to completed, Southern Pacific an alternate view of why the fuel costs. The meaning of President Mike Mohan be­ deal failed; turn to this issue's highIer fuel prices is thus lieves that a quick settlement C&NW column for more infor­ clear-although both forms of of the line dispute was better mation. transportation will cost more, than a protracted and costly Although for SP the new rail will become an increasing­ court battle to conclude the agreement with BN satisfies ly better bargain. purchase. Over 1,000 shippers its need for western access to In line with these higher fu­ supported the purchase and Chicago, Soo Line will suffer el costs, Burlington Northern, 4 • OCTOBER 1990 Southern Pacific and Union Pa­ cific have all announced plans for a 4 percent general rate in­ crease. Rate increases are needed, officials at all three railroads agree, to offset high­ er fuel and non-fuel operating costs. The increases will ad­ versely affect Shippers, but with railroads such as SP using one million gallons of diesel fu­ el a day, even a slight increase in fuel costs necessarily in­ creases shipping costs. INDIAN UPRISINGS SEND CANADIAN TRAINS SOUTH: A dispute involving Mohawk in­ dians on the Kahnawake reser­ vation near Montreal disrupted transportation across Canada during July and August as oth­ New lease power for Union Pacific includes a set of four Motive Power International SD40-2Ms, pho­ er Native American groups in tographed with an eastbound train at Cheyenne on Aug.