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echo: railroad
to: WES LEATHEROCK
from: DARYL STOUT
date: 1997-11-05 00:55:00
subject: U.P. LEASING AMTRAK PWR

WL>        It was my understanding that the U.P. would pick up all
WL>the costs.  I imagine you know that the Surface Transportation
WL>Board (successor to the I.C.C.) yesterday (Oct. 31) declared there
WL>is a "transportation emergency in the West" because of U.P.'s
WL>performance.
 
  I saw a news story where U.P. was turning to an unlikely source to get
additional locomotive power for its trains...Amtrak. Apparently, Amtrak
is putting several former mothballed locomotives into service, and
letting U.P. lease them.
 
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