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$180,000 x how many trips per year, 25 maybe? That's $4.5 million per year for the railroad gross. If the utility bought or leased their own cars, then all the railroad is paying for is rent for engines, labor, etc. The railroad has gotta be clearing one or two million annually with each captive coal utility, maybe half a million for utilities with some rail head to head competition. Yeah, I'd say those global investment firms are getting a decent share of what the ratepayers are forking over.
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