Every day Union Pacific and BNSF Railway trains battle gravity and curvature as they wind their way up and down the former Southern Pacific main line through the rugged Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California.
Now UP and BNSF are engaged in a different sort of fight: The railroads have been unable to come to terms on a new deal for BNSF’s use of the line. And so UP (NYSE: UNP) has brought a rare trackage rights dispute to the Surface Transportation Board.
The railroads filed final briefs in...
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