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Jay emphasizes the key point: cost. <br /> <br />Any solution that costs more than the 286K car is futile and self-defeating. Idlers, extra axles, whatever -- they all cost a lot more than the problem they are intended to solve. The problem is not technology, the problem is how the short line pays for it. <br /> <br />The reason Class I railroads went to 286K cars was to cut costs -- to haul a lot more grain in not much more car. So any solution that anyone wants to propose can be no more expensive. Don't think the railroad industry hasn't looked for it. It has not found it because it does not exist. This is why the short line railroad association is proposing a government tax break for improving short line track: the plan is to use someone else's money.
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