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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by beaulieu Yes the DM&E can interchange with the CP and UP, but it is several hundred miles further east. Raising the costs to route it that way. [/quote] So the Aberdeen connection is key? BNSF has contractual "bottleneck" rights dating from their takeover of operations of the State owned ex-Milwaukee tracks including the few miles in Aberdeen between DM&E to the south and DMV&W (and thus onto CP) to the north, if I understand correctly. This CP connection is viable competition mileage-wise with BNSF to the PNW, so naturally BNSF would contest this possible connection from a purely business standpoint e.g. they get to keep all of DM&E's PNW-bound grain on BNSF rails west of Aberdeen. Makes sense for BNSF to go that way, but why would the State acquiesce to this paper barrier if it means higher rates to PNW for its grain growers? Also, is the distance between DM&E and DMV&W so far or obstructed that the State couldn't just build a connection parallel to the Core lines for a few million?
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