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BNSF borrows my idea! (but will they pay me a consultant's fee?)
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doghouse - it's not an article but an information release from WSDOT. Just contact the rail office of WSDOT to get on their email list. <br /> <br />mudchicken - what is "TAK"? And yes, I did offer this idea to BNSF 5 years ago as a way for them to work more synchronistically with their shortline "partners". It took pressure from WSDOT to get them to "bone" the idea in order to keep on WSDOT's good side. After all, BNSF is counting on WSDOT to help pay for the clearance project on Stampede Pass. <br /> <br />Not to take things our of context, but the idea of using shortline hoppers to dump at mega terminals is not new, shortlines and bargelines have been doing such for years. But when Class I's build new 110 car facilities, they generally do not consider the idea of shorthauling grain to the terminal via rail. After all, it might seem superfluous to rail grain to a terminal, dump it, and then refill other rail cars with the same grain for the next leg of the journey. Logic says keep it in the original hopper until you reach port. But when viewed from the supply chan perspective, it makes more sense to deliver grain via 264k hoppers over cojoining rails than 120k trucks via county roads.
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