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Regarding Mark's point on Class I's prefering to handle rail traffic off a regional or shortline vs having traffic delivered by truck, based on what I have observed it seems that the Class I's would prefer to have trucks deliver traffic to a consolidated terminal rather than having the bother of switching out a handful of cars off a Class II or Class III railroad. This observation is probably commodity specific. For delivery of grain, lumber, consumer goods, and containers the Class I's prefer delivery by truck over delivery by shortlines. For chemicals and aggregates, by necessity those commodities must be delivered by rail. <br /> <br />The moral: If you are or are planning on taking over a shortline, make sure your main traffic base is rail dependent e.g. not practical for transport by truck. If your main traffic base is grain, you are not long for this world.
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