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We had approached Montana Rail Link about running a mixed TOFC/RailRunner service between Billings and Missoula, with eastbounds out of Lewiston ID as the primary haul and westbounds the grain backhauls. The distance between Missoula and Billings is about the right distance for a RailRunner concept, and the service would have created a virtual rail link between Billings and Rapid City SD (a city that is currently isolated from western rail service). We would have a 3pi manage the thing, all MRL had to do was run the trains every other day between the two principal cities three times a week. There is a BNSF intermodal terminal in Billings which had the same problems of empty ISO containers piling up, and this would have been a good way to develop new markets for these containers, and accompli***he goal of taking trucks off the roads and onto the rails that would otherwise not go by rail. <br /> <br />The problem of course was that MRL is scared to death that BNSF might not approve of this new-fangled service since it might compete with the unit grain trains out of Billings, so the plan was scrapped. So much for the BS of Class I's wanting to take trucks off the roads!
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