Surface Transportation Board (STB)

30523 SERVICE DATE - LATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 30, 1999 EB SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD STB Finance Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No. 21) UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, AND MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY—CONTROL AND MERGER—SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL CORPORATION, SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, SPCSL CORP., AND THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY [GENERAL OVERSIGHT] Decision No. 15 Decided: November 29, 1999 We discuss, in this decision, the issues that have been raised and the conclusions that we have reached in the third annual round of the UP/SP general oversight proceeding. Our review of this record indicates that the service crisis is over and that there have been no competitive problems resulting from the merger. BACKGROUND UP/SP Merger Proceeding. In a decision served August 12, 1996, we approved the 1 common control and merger of the rail carriers controlled by Union Pacific Corporation (Union Pacific Railroad Company and Missouri Pacific Railroad Company) and the rail carriers controlled by Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (Southern Pacific Transportation Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL Corp., and The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company) subject to various conditions, including, among many others, a 5-year oversight condition and the terms of the BNSF agreement as supplemented by the CM