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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie OK - so we get into mineral rights. I understand a teeny bit of that - but say in the case of Wyoming's coal - that is one big piece of mineral rights. Do they go back to who owned the land before they started mining? And are there several companies that mine the coal or just one big JR Ewing company? [/quote] Mookie: Not just coal. oil and mineral rights; but also huge investments in electric generating plant $ 750,000,000 per unit (coal and oil) Transmission lines ($ 15,000 to 35,000 per section) and all the fuel, equipment, labor, service maint, taxes and other requirements for transport over rail or pipeline.Everything moving represents either a sale or a transaction in progress. In short Mookie what you are looking at as you count the cars, look up in the sky at the air freighters, see the container ships and tankers in a sea port, or see those large (unmentionable simi's) on the highways you are looking at what amounts to aprox 1/3 to 1/2 of the gross national product of the North American economy. J.R. Ewing would be a piker (a poor one at that) when compared to the public and private companies that play in the transportation, mineral and fuels league. Just to think all we were doing was counting the cars on a train. I Kindest Regards as always - piouslion [:)]
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