In this Episode we will be discussing the legal battle between the Union Pacific Railroad and Metra (Metropolitan Rail Corporation) over the Purchase Service Agreement that just expired with no agreement in place to continue the service. We will be discussing the History of this PSA, the UP's claim the it no longer has an "common carrier obligation", to continue the service under the same framework that it has in the past. The Podcast hosts, William Moore  and Jemayne Walker will also compare other agreements that an East Coast Class I railroad held but decided to withdraw altogether from providing any commuter rail service at all but used a different more civil exit strategy than the one Union Pacific is trying to employ with Metra.