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Greyhounds, <br /> <br />Not to nitpick, but what I said was "ag" products dominate going to the West Coast, not "apples". Wheat, hay, ect are mostly bound for the Pacific Rim, while fresh fruit is bound for domestic markets. The PNW fruit growers keep trying to expand their Asian markets, but for some reason they always seem to run up against some roadblock put up by the Asian authorities. The Pacific Rim is just a hard market to crash for quality specific food stuffs. <br /> <br />With regards to your topic question, it may be that the railroads simply don't want to deal with sensitive commodities. As I've said before, because of the railroads' current economic classification (it begins with an "m" and ends in a "y" and is also the name of a popular Parker Brothers board game), they are more risk averse. Truckers are in the opposite category (e.g. highly intercompetitive), thus they are more willing to take these risks despite all the hassles.
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