Grain Transportation Report, August 10, 2023
Bibliographic record
Abstract
August 1, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) filed a petition (pdf) with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to prevent Union Pacific Railroad (UP) from blocking grain shipments to the ports of Houston and Galveston, TX (Houston/Galveston).The route involves a UP line that CPKC believes it has rights to use.In 1988, when UP acquired the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT), the Interstate Commerce Commission (STB's predecessor) granted trackage rights to the Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCS).The rights enabled KCS to move grain from Kansas City to the ports of Houston/Galveston by relying on a UP-owned line between Beaumont, TX, and the ports.The access rights were intended to preserve competition following the UP-MKT merger.According to CPKC, KCS used these rights "somewhat sporadically" over the last 35 years.However, the merger between the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CP) and KCS has renewed shippers' interest in single-line service from the Upper Midwest to Houston/Galveston.UP has until August 14 to reply to the petition.To allow shippers to plan for the upcoming fall harvest, CPKC is requesting that STB issue a decision no later than August 31. BNSF Completes Bridge Expansion Project at Key Bottleneck in IdahoLast weekend, BNSF Railway (BNSF) completed its Sandpoint Junction Connector Project in Sandpoint
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".