October 25, 2022 - Trains.com -

Union Pacific said that a video of a KCS train "breezing through Houston" misled federal regulators about Houston terminal operations.

The railroads played the video, shot from the lead locomotive, for the Surface Transportation Board on the sixth day of their merger hearings earlier this month. CP and KCS were aiming to show that Houston can handle the eight additional trains they plan on running through the terminal within three years after their merger.

But UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that suggested there’s minimal traffic on KCS trackage rights routes through Houston.

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