Interesting changes at Cajon since the SP UP merger. Due to congestion on the UP in Wyoming and Nebraska, busiest railroad in the world, UP has been diverting traffic off the original UP line from LA to Salt Lake on to the SP Sunset route, which they are double tracking from Palm Springs to El Paso. This results in less original UP traffic going up the Santa Fe to Summit. Also the UP put crossovers in just west of Summit and east of Devore so some of the old remaining UP traffic can be diverted off the Santa Fe on to the SP to go up the grade and put back on the Santa Fe at the top where it will then come off the Santa Fe and on to the original UP line at Daggett. It looks like much of the derived UP traffic is being filled in with additional BN trains. BN has been double tracking the Santa Fe line from Chicago to LA to handle more traffic which should off the loss of UP traffic up Cajon.
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