Posted by Paul on September 04, 2014 at 15:41:17 from (76.77.203.247):
In Reply to: Railroading posted by NEsota on September 04, 2014 at 15:20:36:
Rail cars from this part of the upper Midwest are nearly all going to the PNW and floated across the Pacific.
Consumers within 1000 miles will just hire trucks to get it done. Oats for example it very expensive here, because it is getting trucked down from Canada, no trains available.
I don't want to yell and stomp at the railroads, they are in business and right now petroleum products are willing to pay the biggest money so that is where the engines go. I understand that.
But..... The railroad has had a very arrogant and obtrusive history, they need regulation and reminding where their bread and butter is, and what they need to be doing.....
A other issue you aren't hearing yet but will in 2 months, is the lp situation. We will be in a world of hurt for lp, with the pipeline no longer carrying lp, and railroads booked up with other product, and this very wet crop not getting ripe in time, we are looking at a massive lp problem shaping up this fall/ winter.
In general the USA has let its infrastructure rot away. These are the beginning rounds of the problems we will face over the next 20 years.
We can't build power lines, we can't build pipelines, we can't repair and improve the lock and dam system, we can't.....
Well, we will reap the rewards of all the 'we can't' people.....
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