In a message to Bob Wallace dated 10-19-97  07:51, Tom Walker wrote: 
 TW> 
 BW> Not too surprising, apparently. I've also heard in recent days that U.P.
 BW> has a backlog of cars in some number of freight yards awaiting transit
 BW> to their destination, some of these already on "hold" for a month or
 BW> more. Which may explain the recent closed-door meeting in Houston not
 BW> too long ago that had operating department and shippers discussing how
 BW> the railroad will clear up the backlog and keep it from happening again.
 TW> I understsnd the situation is so desperate that they even requested 
 TW> permission to send some 60,000 Containers through the Panama Canal on
 TW> a ships to aleviate the situation.  But were turned down.
 Who is the "they" that requested "permission" and who turned
 "them" down?
 My experience is if you put enough cash on the barrelhead,
 SeaLand and others will pick up and deliver at the "multi-modal"
 terminal tommorrow morning (their Oakland, CA terminal is served
 by the UP, in fact).
 Of course SeaLand developed the "land bridge" with UP and
 ConRail to cut down coast-to-coast container time.
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