What does "overhead Trackage rights" mean?

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bigford said:
maybe something to do with overhead power?
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I don't believe so as on the above map where its marked I don't believe there is overhead power. I have seen it say just trackage rigjhts as well.

Actually at second look it DOES appear that it runs where there is over head power, sorry bigford.
 


Well according to Wikipedia it means Arrangements between railroads
Also to be noted is that the P&W does not supply local freight service to local customers where the rights exist

Cheer's
Willis
 
Defines seperation of legal ownership versus operation of the line. A company may own the line itself, but allows another company to run operations on that line.

Edit: CBCNSfan beat me... :)
 
CBCNSfan said:
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Also to be noted is that the P&W does not supply local freight service to local customers where the rights exist. ...
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I also noticed that in the fine print on the P&W map. Maybe it means they are "hopping over" another RR company's territory between certain cities?
 
It basically means a railroad has an agreement with another railroad that they can use the tracks for through traffic but they can't directly serve customers in the area where overhead trackage rights exist. A good example would be the case of union stations. Several railroads may have trackage rights to reach the station but the tracks may be owned by the union station company or jointly owned by the railroads that used the station. Cleveland Union Terminal was one example. All the railroads that used the trackage agreed not to establish any intermediate stations between a certain point on their own lines and the jointly owned line and to only allow passenger trains to run though directly to the CUT and out again.
 
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