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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Mark_W._Hemphill [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by mark_in_utah Lets face it, the ONLY long-term solution to improving service to the PRB area is the construction of a new line outside of the existing ROW. Double-tracked is pretty much a given. [/quote] That is not a majority view among rail professionals. [/quote] The PRB line is for the most part a single straight line corridor between Gillette and Orin, with spurs running out to the mines on both sides. The PRB coal seams, of course, do not follow similar straight corridor, but are spread over a large area of Eastern Wyoming and Southeast Montana. A second dispersed PRB line, perhaps running east-west, further east, or futher west of the Orin line to supplement the north-south Orin line would make perfect sense, since it would touch nearer to more coal deposits, rather than having the railroads and mines build more and longer spurs from a triple tracked Orin line itself. Don't know what those rail professionals envision when a single derailment takes out all three lines of a triple track, something that would not have as serious of an affect as what would be the fall back with a second dispersed line through the area.
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