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BNSF borrows my idea! (but will they pay me a consultant's fee?)
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An idea isn't necessarily a tangible thing, not something that is easily protected like tech or brick and mortar stuff. <br /> <br />I will relate something about those conversations that are still valid today. Outside of political pressure, customer satisfaction parameters, and some additional marginal revenue, BNSF really has nothing to gain and much to lose by adding this traffic to it's lines. All BNSF is really interested in is hauling the grain from shuttle facility to port, and therefore they don't care how the grain gets from farm to shuttle facility. If it all arrives by truck, so what? It's the counties and the State who are responsible for repairing the road damage, not BNSF. But if BNSF starts forwarding shortline traffic from junction to shuttle facilty over the mainline (or if they allow the shortline operator to deliver the railcar loads to the shuttle facility), they are adding traffic in the form of older cars to an already busy line, so the possibility of delays to TOFC or a derailment or such has just gone up. Five years ago there was still additional capacity available on the Cheney-Ritzville line so the likelyhood of delays was low, but now that line is nearing capacity so adding some shortline/shorthaul unit trains might add interference. Maybe they will time the delivery to those hours in which line congestion is at it's typical lowest?
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