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TwilightGardener

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7. That's the problem with having only one Class 1 railroad for a whole state.

Reply to eridani (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 2, 2014, 07:55 PM

Sep 2014

Buffett looks at both the grain and the oil and sez, "Mine, all mine!" because Union Pacific doesn't have trackage there, to my knowledge. I guess he basically has a monopoly of sorts up there. Maybe some smaller/regional railroads can help out (if there are any nearby), or the FRA could force some cooperation with UP, or there's always trucks, though pretty bad for the environment and not nearly as cost effective.

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***Action Alert*** Oil Train HALTED! [View all] eridani Sep 2014 OP

Railroads actually have their own security services that prevent TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #1

What, you think that train is going to magically disappear and the crew needed to move it... ret5hd Sep 2014 #2

You don't get called for a train when trains aren't moving. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3

I'm betting the crew wouldn't want to be on one of those trains when they eridani Sep 2014 #4

No--my husband opposes the one-man crews that BNSF is trying to pull off, in particular. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

So it's OK to let wheat rot for the sake of oil that benefits no Americans? eridani Sep 2014 #6

That's the problem with having only one Class 1 railroad for a whole state. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #7