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HIgh Speed Rail for Freight - "Time is money" (or is it?)
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Overmod, <br /> <br />I was being a little bit facitious. The railroads of late haven't made much of an effort to improve transit times, and they are in a position to tell the shippers when it will get there give or take a few days, so why go to all the pr trouble and expense of constructing this new fuel depot to save 7 hours in transit, when they can just tell the shippers to eat the extra 7 hours and save themselves $40 million and counting? It's one thing if it's time to replace scattered aging fuel servicing plants with a consolidated plant amid the funnel, and if that's why BNSF built the plant when and where they did then that makes sense, but not if the main reason was to cut 7 hours off transit time.
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