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Tom, <br /> <br />You're still missing the salient point on the $300 vs $1500 per carload debate. It is not the rate per trip that's important, it's the number of trips per year. If BNSF could manage to do the rational thing and offer the 4 day service cycle for the Quincy to Puget Sound service, they'd be getting at least 90 cycles per year. 90 x $300 is $27,000 per carload per year. On the long haul to Chicago we're talking at least a three week cycle if not longer, so that's at max 17 cycles per year. 17 x $1500 is $25,500 per carload per year. The difference is $1500 per carload per year at a minimum. Take that times 100 platforms, and that's $150,000 difference per year between that shorthaul and the long haul. <br /> <br />Now do you understand why $1500 per box may not be as good as $300 per box? And it's axiomatic that it's a lot easier to keep a schedule over 200 miles than it is over 2200 miles. The longer the trip, the more likely it is for unexpected delays to occur. <br /> <br />And the reason UP *doesn't* offer a new Wallula to Puget Sound service is that they already are running one via Northwest Container from Pasco to Puget Sound. Why offer something you already are running?
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