In a message to Phil Kane dated 10-25-97  08:11, Wes Leatherock wrote: 
 PK> My experience is if you put enough cash on the barrelhead,
 PK> SeaLand and others will pick up and deliver at the "multi-modal"
 PK> terminal tommorrow morning (their Oakland, CA terminal is served
 PK> by the UP, in fact).
 
 PK> Of course SeaLand developed the "land bridge" with UP and
 PK> ConRail to cut down coast-to-coast container time.
 WL> As I am sure you know, no permission at all was required
 WL> and UP had the plan completely ready to go when they announced it.
 WL> The shippers screamed loudly, and U.P. abandoned the plan
 WL> quickly.
 I can understand why.  A good friend of ours is a coffee
 importer, and when there was a wildcat shipping boycott on the
 West Coast several years ago, he had to bring his stuff in via
 Houston, requiring land transportation both in Central America
 and domestically.  It almost broke the company.
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