Track Rights on a shortline?

[iandrewmartin]

My layout and railroad is similar to... give track rights to the UP so they could deliver the incoming cars all the way to the customer instead of leaving them at the interchange for us to pick up and deliver?

Gary;

I am late to the party but there would no real worlkd value to your shortline from alllowing them to deliver on-line. You lose a bucket of money from the revenue for switching and you no longer control your shortline.

So if all you want is a real-world [excuse] reason to run UP, or other locomotives onto your property - just lease them while your regular unit(s) are in the shop for their FRA mandated inspections.

This is a lot simpler and you get to run whatever you want, except maybe the latest, greatest power. Of course it also gives you a reason to model lots of lease (power by hour) units too.

Hope this helps.