Actually, I am in favor of culling out the cars in BAR for OC,LP and Teh and making them part of what is now the Boron Local makes good sense. Renaming it the BNSF Mojave Local would be, IMO, appropriate. Adding two more SD's for a total of 5 would also be IMO appropriate.
Hear me out for a sec.
Right now we lift *some* cars out of BAK for BAR, 5 SD40's handled the load nicely.
*If* we were to adopt this plan, the only thing BARBAK would have to do is (1) pickup anything that MOJ generated for BAK and (2) take the remainder (originally tagged for BAK) to BAK. Likewise, the only thing that BAKBAR would have to do is go directly to BAR. The Mojave Local would handle anything between BAR - MOJ - BAR, like the UP Mojave Flyer.
*On* the subject of the Mojave Flyer, I would like to strongly suggest that this train be instituted as well, taking some of the lifts off of BKWC and WCBK, which while they have been hadling the traffic thus far, the WCBK portion is growing to a very large size. Last WCBK took six big units, and we had wanted these runs to be in the hands of the SD's. Instituting the Mojave Flyer on the UP side WC-MOJ-WC would solve all these issues.
Like i said, I would strongly prefer all these trains to be kept in the hands of the SD's. Splitting the Mojave Local and the Mojave Flyer off of the big trains would, IMO do exactly that.
A copy and paste of this is going to the suggestions board.
