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minus-squareEldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days 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-up2·edit-220 days 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
minus-squareSparroHawc@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoHowever, a law that isn’t enforced doesn’t really exist.
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
However, a law that isn’t enforced doesn’t really exist.