(Source: Trains Magazine, October 3, 2022)
Surface Transportation Board members appear skeptical about CSX Transportation’s bid to force its way on to the Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern Meridian Speedway. The Meridian Speedway — which runs from Meridian, Miss., to Shreveport, La., — is the shortest, fastest route between the Southeast and Southwest. The Meridian Speedway was not controversial until the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger came along. Now CSX wants in. NS wants to keep CSX out. And NS wants to protect the route that carries nearly 10% of its intermodal traffic, saying CPKC might pose a threat to reliable service.
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