Home
»
Trains Magazine
»
Forums
»
General Discussion
»
"Railroads can't maintain pace of coal demand"

Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
[quote user="jeaton"] Probably not paying that much attention, but isn't the DME going to have to use the Orin Line to reach most of the mines?It would be interesting to see how the single line DM&E, with only 20 to 25% of the capacity would handle the tonnage when a derailment wipes out the Orin Line for THREE WEEKS?  (Maybe they use Oxen to clear train wrecks in FM land.)Of course the DM&E will never have train wrecks.[/quote]Didn't it take three weeks to clear that last derailment on the Orin, you know, the one that caused coal stockpiles to run out nationwide?  Don't know if it was because BNSF hired some oxen outfit to clear the coal dust from the ballast or not.........Sure, DM&E will have it's share of derailments, no one is perfect.  The point is, a DM&E PRB derailment will not cause the shutdown of all coal deliveries from the PRB for weeks on end, since it will be new trackage over a new corridor.  (It's my understanding that the DM&E will build a line parallel to the Orin line going north and south once it's line from the east reaches that point.)In fact, the DM&E line represents a safety net for continued coal deliveries that is not currently present with the UP/BNSF setup.  Like the old saying - "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".And I will reiterate that Matt Rose and BNSF are fools for publicly criticising the DM&E project (possibly abetting a possible rejection of the DM&E application), when it is becoming clear to anyone with reasonable judgement that BNSF should instead be rushing to help finance the DM&E PRB extension in exchange for trackage rights at least as far as Edgemont, something that would bail out BNSF when the current Orin line gets shut down for some reason.
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag