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[quote user="nanaimo73"][quote user="futuremodal"]  When I speak of Colony as being a more apt starting point for a PRB extension, I mean it is half as close to the Gillette area as that southern option.  And the Belle Fourche river flows northeast from the Gillette coalfields to Colony, so there's your water level grade.  But perhaps more important, the untouched Montana PRB fields are a hop skip and jump away from Colony, so there's the possibility of using Colony as a jumping point for two coal road extensions.[/quote]Somehow I don't believe Rapid City is going to allow unit trains through their city, just like Rochester. [/quote]How dare you compare the good citizens of Rapid City with those Roachies![;)]Seriously, why do you think the level of opposition would be comparable?  There is no Mayo monster dominating Rapid City, indeed Rapid City's economy is very much dependent on natural resources.I feel that there wouldn't be any more opposition to coal trains through Rapid City than there is with coal trains through Gillette.  And if a new PRB extension through the Montana coalfields results in a through rail connection to Billings, that opens the door for that new Amtrak train everyone's been speculatin' about![quote]DME is loosing a one-front war, and you want to open a second front ?[/quote]DM&E temporarily lost the battle of sanity over idiocy.  Lightning ain't gonna strike twice.
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