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[quote user="greyhounds"] <p>BNSF is just playing the game by the government rules. They'd be remis not to.</p><p>"Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I got 'em because the other side's got 'em. But once you use 'em, they screw everything up." It's a quote from a movie titled "Other Peoples' Money".</p><p> BNSF has to protect its investors. (That's the "Other Peoples' Money"). The "other side" has come in with (yetch) lawyers and politicians. BNSF has to respond in kind or they're going to take the short end of the stick.</p><p>And those people in Ft. Worth don't get paid to settle for the short end. "Playing Nice" is not the same as "Just let the other guy get a cheap governemnt loan and screw you over."</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>If BNSF really wants to protect it's *stockholders*, they'd quite running coal and grain trains altogether and just focus on the import intermodal.<span class="smiley">[;)] Oh, the railroad would lose money, but the *stockholders* would be able to receive gains on their *other* holdings - Evergreen, Hanjin, China Shipping, et al!<span class="smiley">[}:)]</span></span></p><p>Perhaps some day, BNSF's current double digit IQ management pool will be replaced by more visionary managers, who can see the obvious gains of supporting the DM&E PRB extension in return for access to the Bill-Edgemont section of the proposal. Until then, we'll just get more of this typical BNSF crap-o-rama.</p>
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