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[quote user="solzrules"] Personally I don't understand why DME couldn't run coal trains on ICE's track.  It is owned by the same company.  [/quote] They are prohibited from running coal trains on the ICE until they file the required environmental impact reports. It was a requirement placed  by the STB at the acquisition, I believe. Outlined on page 32<a href="http://www.protectrochester.com/downloads/FRAcomments.pdf"> here  </a>where it says in part: - " In both of these consolidation proceedings the Department pointed out that through the transactions in question DM&E would extend its system so that communities previously on the IMRL or IC&E would no longer be "down line" from the DM&E but effectively "on line," and they therefore deserved the same solicitude for any impacts they would feel from large numbers of PRB coal trains. 3 In light of various uncertainties about the actual construction of the PRB project and subsequent operations, the Board responded with two conditions. The first prohibited PRB coal trains from being routed on IMRL and IC&E lines until such time that an appropriate environmental review could be conducted, and the second required notice of the start of construction of the PRB line and submission of information sufficient to enable the STB to conduct that review."- Maybe this boils down to the DME sees fulfilling the EI requirement as an easier task than dealing with the Mayo obstruction? path of lesser resistance, in other words
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