True foriegn locomtives

[git a holt to it]

Has anyone noticed a surge in mexican locomotives lately? The six years I've been here I have seen maybe 5 or 6, but in the last couple months there's been a lot of ferromex locos coming through denver, theres been 10 or 15 to come thru.

[freshmeat]

Oh yeah, that and TFM power. I'm in central Kansas and we see them a lot.

Could this have something to do with the super rail corridor that is being built?

check these web sites out. Evidently it will be run like trucks coming into the States under NAFTA. Foreign crews and FRA rules don't apply.

http://www.inboundlogistics.com/digital ... ital06.pdf

http://www.minutemanhq.com/state/read.p ... IA&sid=346

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=50500
(note: BNSF is already planning a huge NEW logistics park near Kansas City)

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2006/a ... 08-23.html

http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/

http://www.spp.gov/myths_vs_facts.asp

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050 ... -9736r.htm
(Note: Washington Times Newspaper)

http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm

[route_rock]

Just ran a ES44 out on the head end of the KCK with another Ferromex SD 40 in teh consist. Tooka bit to find the "switch" on the display screen that turned it from Espanol to Ingles.
Checked the daily card and since Jan the leader had been in the US roaming the BNSF. I know we had been getting the ones fresh out of GE on their way to Mexico . Have shots of the 4609 after being hit in a hard coupling. Destroyed the rear of it and the drawbar ( rumor was the frame was bent as well) and it was to be returned to GE for eval. That was the third unit on BNSF that had been damaged in transit.
We have been getting a lot of Ferromex's old power here(note the 40) and running them on trains towards Chicago. Power sharing? or are we merging? Snickers

[Tadman]

Doesn't UP own ferromex, or a portion of?

[UPRR engineer]

There is something like that with us. Partners with KSC in Mexico some how, with something.

[resauto]

We (KCS) own the Ferromex, its part of KCS de Mexico or KCSM....UP has trackage rights in Laredo on the Tex-Mex Division of KCS

[Tadman]

So KCS owns both the former TFM-Rail as well as part of Ferromex?


Edit: this is what Wikipedia has to say - I'd go to the ferromex annual report but I'm not that fluent

>>Ferromex is trying to merge into Ferrosur's parent company Infraestructura y Tranportes Ferroviarios, which also owns the US Short-line railroad, Texas Pacifico Transportation (TXPF), but the Mexican government has ruled that it violates antitrust laws.[1] ITF is currently controlled by the mining company Grupo Mexico. <<

[BlackDog]

CN and CP units don't count as foreign? I C them all the time.

[route_rock]

Snickers IC UP lol sorry but it was a long night.