HOWARD HICKSON'S HISTORIES [Index] Elko: The First 100 Years Elko was the end of the tracks laid from the west by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. When CPRR tracklayers moved on east to meet construction crews of the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah Territory, they left a small tent town on the banks of the Humboldt River.
By definition, reciprocal switching is âan interchange of inbound and outbound carload freight among railroads in which the cars are switched by one railroad to or from the siding of another under a regular switching charge that is usually absorbed by the carrier receiving the line-haul.â.
The rules proposed in the NPRM would (1) remove the references to reciprocal switching. in the current regulations at 49 C.F.R. Part 1144, and (2) create a new Part 1145 âto govern. reciprocal switching under either of the two statutory prongs provided in Â§11102(c).â NPRM at. 17. The primary and most positive feature of the NPRM is the elimination of the aforementioned.