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[quote user="YoHo1975"] <p>FM's insistance that BNSF is dumb for not wanting competition is just strange. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>A bit of a mischaracterization there, Yo. I said BNSF is foolish for not taking this opportunity of other-financed PRB infrastructure expansion to garner a new outlet for their share of the PRB coal market. Here it is, a brand new east-west rail corridor from Bill to Edgemont that would potentially add a third <strong>more direct route</strong> for eastbound coal trains, and all BNSF had to do to use it would be to play nice and perhaps offer to build a few sidings between those two points in exchange for overhead rights.</p><p>And in the larger picture, given US federal policy over the last century, a large corporation is either going to get competition, or they're going to get regulation. Given that in this particular case BNSF would benefit more from the former than the latter, since the former is no real threat to BNSF's PRB dominance and (as I have pointed out) a potential partner in dual track usage agreements, in this case BNSF is "dumb".</p>
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