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[quote user="nanaimo73"] [quote user="spokyone"]I see that BNSF filed a paper with the STB stating that if PRB coal is shipped on proposed DM&E line, it would interfere with intermodal traffic, specifically at Savanna Junction. Can anyone explain that.[/quote]Coal trains from DME heading to Chicago would cross the Mississippi River at Savanna on IC&E's former Milwaukee Road line, probaly very slowly. BNSF's busy line from the west coast and the Twin Cities crosses this line at the eastern end of the bridge, before splitting into lines to Chicago and Galesburg.<a href="http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=15&X=1838&Y=11658&W=1&qs=%7csavanna%7c%7c">http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=15&X=1838&Y=11658&W=1&qs=%7csavanna%7c%7c</a><a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=57249">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=57249</a>  [/quote]Anyone outside of a BNSF disciple should be rather indignant over this latest BS job by Matt Rose and BNSF.  This latest attempt to delay or deny the DM&E project from going forward is almost comical.  ICE could just as well claim that BNSF's trainloads of Chinese imports are delaying domestic coal shipments at this crossing.   Hmmmmm, maybe they should![}:)]Here's the same item from ProgressiveRailroading.com:http://www.progressiverailroading.com/freightnews/article.asp?id=9938
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