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minus-squareEldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI had heard that freight usually has priority largely because Amtrak leases the tracks from the freight companies that own the rails and usually a stipulation of those leases is a priority for the company’s trains.
minus-squareJamesFire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoFederal law requires that passenger trains be given priority https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/HostRailroadReports/mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf
I had heard that freight usually has priority largely because Amtrak leases the tracks from the freight companies that own the rails and usually a stipulation of those leases is a priority for the company’s trains.
Federal law requires that passenger trains be given priority
https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/HostRailroadReports/mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf