Re: WP&Y railway being sold to Carnival Corporation

Earl Wrote:
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> To my knowledge, The WP&Y is not under Railroad
> Retirement, as they are not part of the general
> system of freight transportation.


https://secure.rrb.gov/blaw/bcd/bcd02-23.html

Excerpt from Railroad Retirement Board decision:
"In B.C.D. No. 00-9, issued on March 24, 2000, the Board held that Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company (PARN) was an employer under the RRA and the RUIA from December 20, 1979 to April 30, 1988. PARN is an Alaskan corporation which merged with a West Virginia corporation of the same name on December 20, 1979. The West Virginia corporation had been a rail carrier employer with service creditable from its commencement of rail service in 1898. B.C.D. No. 00-9 also held that the West Virginia corporation ceased to be a covered employer on the date of its merger with PARN, and that PARN subsequently ceased to be a covered employer on April 30, 1988, because it operated a passenger excursion service that did not operate as part of an interstate rail network. On November 2, 2000, the Board reopened that decision and reversed that part of it which held that PARN ceased to be an employer effective April 30, 1988, finding that PARN had been and continued to be a rail carrier employer since December 20, 1979 (B.C.D. No. 00-44). "

It would appear that most of the railroad's employees are under Railroad Retirement, which could be because they are still a common carrier, it was determined that they provide transportation and/or crossing the international border might have changed their status.