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[quote user="arbfbe"]   The only way public money will be used to upgrade these lines is if the State of Montana siezes them in a Imminent Domain action.  Then the state will still need to find some way to connect them to a rail system who wants to use them.  MRL will be reluctant since that just moves the connection problem farther down the line.  Who can force a carrier to provide service on tracks they do not own? [/quote] Assuming that action would pass muster with the courts, Montana would still need neighboring states to do the same thing at the same time so that the tracks are freed for multiple use from commodity origin to destination.  Otherwise, Montana would be on an island, with only UP via Monida Pass or CP via Sweetwater as potential competition suitors.  Neither route offers much in the way of an improvement over BNSF's routes to the West Coast for Montana export grain.  Now, if Idaho and Washington were to do the same thing, then the list of likely transporter participants grows exponentially.
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