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The Reno Trench cost roughly $282 million for 2.2 miles of project, or $128 million per mile. <br /> <br />I would venture that 1 mile of rebuilt track from Napa Junction to Hamilton Street, plus a 3 mile tunnel through basalt, plus a 4,000' viaduct over Latah Creek, plus the cost of re-aquiring the old UP/Milwaukee ROW from Fish Lake Junction to the west end of the new viaduct, plus relaying ballast and track, AND the cost of an underpass under the BNSF crossover near Scribner, would cost less per mile than the cost per mile of the Reno Trench AND cost less per mile than a southern bypass via the old PCE grade and the UP Plummer branch. <br /> <br />Basalt is easier (read - less costly) to tunnel through than granite and more stable than sandstone or clay. I will have to check this, but one website I perused stated that the BN project west of Spokane over Latah Creek plus the reroute of the ex-GN main cost $16 million in the early 1970's, so that's what? Maybe $50 million today adjusted for inflation? The total mileage of that project was about 8 miles give or take. This prospective UP project would be about 12 miles total from Fish Lake to Napa Junction.
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