The use of more than one mode of transportation to ship goods or commodities from an origin to a destination.  In a truck/rail transload, the shipment is initially loaded on a truck, taken to a rail d [..]

A railroad customer’s physical ability to place freight on a railroad; also a rail customer’s ability to receive “service” from a railroad. (See also “commercial access,” “open access” and “terminal a [..]

The “captive” portion of an otherwise competitive rail movement.

When a “captive” rail customer creates “rail-to-rail competition” by building a new rail line out to a second railroad.  A “build-in” occurs when a railroad builds a new line to reach one or more rail [..]

When railroad serves a customer at multiple locations, with at least one location “captive,” the railroad sometimes quotes very high rates at the captive location.  Then, the railroad may offer to red [..]

A rail customer who has no competitive transportation alternative to a single railroad serving its location.  A rail customer may be captive at the facility where traffic originates (for example, a mi [..]

A railroad with at least $250 million in operating revenue in 1991 dollars.  Affiliated railroads may report separately but be operated as a single “system” under common control.  The seven Class I ra [..]

Access by the railroad that owns the tracks serving the rail customer’s facility, as well as by any other railroad that can effectively provide service through arrangements, such as:

Shipments between origins and destinations that can be served by more than one railroad.

Rail rates established by contracts containing a confidentiality provision.  Most rail transportation contracts contain confidential rates.