Feedback regarding the recent adoption of the reciprocal switching rule by the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers, could be viewed as mixed.
Reciprocal switching has long been a prevalent topic in freight railroad circles. As previously reported by LM, STB’s previously proposed reciprocal…
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