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WATCO abandoning service on Washington State owned lines! (read: BNSF does it again!)
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If grain from the Marshall line (aka the P&L) is now either being trucked to barge terminals or to the Templin Terminal in Ritzville as stated above, does that mean they no longer load blocks of PCC/Washington State Grain Train cars at Plaza, Oakesdale, and other places on the P&L? If they built a connection from the Coulee City line (aka the CW) to the P&L, as was also stated above, in order to connect with UP instead of BNSF, do you really think the additional 145-plus miles of slow, short line routing would be beneficial? (That's more than the entire length of the CW itself.) Don't forget that this longer routing would also put a 3% grade west of Colfax in the face of all those grain loads.
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