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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by TomDiehl</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Clemente</i> <br /><br />People keep posting figures of 8 to 10 days for BNSF to get produce from Quincy to Puget Sound. The SPOEVE works Quincy as needed on its trip west; you mean to tell me that thing ain't getting stuff to Everett in at least a day or two? I realize Puget Sound ports are still south of Everett, but gimme a break. If not the SPOEVE, doesn't the Spud Local still make a round trip from Wenatchee to Quincy, which would at least gather the produce and spot it for easy pick up in a single block by the next SPOEVE at either Quincy or Wenatchee? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Actually, it's only one person, and I haven't figured out where that "8 day" figure keeps coming from. [/quote] <br /> <br />You'll have to forgive Tom. Apparently he flunked high school math. <br /> <br />This is straight from the original Quincy article: <br /> <br />"Trains would run twice a week, <b>but it could take up to 100 hours for produce to reach the Tacoma port</b>." <br /> <br />Now, if those are dedicated trains, and it's taking up to 100 hours to get from Quincy to Tacoma, then it is likely that it is also taking up to 100 hours to get back from Tacoma to Quincy. 100 + 100 = 200 hours, divided by 24 hours in a day, equals 8.3 days for that cycle. <br /> <br />So no, it is not taking BNSF 8 days to get from Quincy to Tacoma, it is taking 8 days for BNSF to run the Quincy to Tacoma back to Quincy <i>cycle</i>. <br /> <br />Now, if instead BNSF allows westbound empties to be offloaded at Quincy wherein those containers can be filled and continue on to Seattle/Tacoma, then that begs another question: Why is it taking BNSF up to "100 hours" (read: 4 days, give or take a few hours) to get loaded containers from Quincy to Tacoma? Is that part of BNSF's normal double stack transit time on the line segment from Quincy to the Sound? We know that westbound container trains are not full of US product ready for export to China, rather such trains are running mostly empty.
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