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BNSF borrows my idea! (but will they pay me a consultant's fee?)
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From the Washington State DOT's rail office: <br /> <br />"New rail shuttle opportunity for the CW Line: On March 2, BNSF formally proposed a haulage arrangement to the Watco/PCC Railroad over the CW Line for no more than 78-car unit trains of wheat, originating on the PCC between Cheney and Coulee City and terminating on the BNSF line at the grain shuttle facility at Ritzville/Temple. There are various parameters within the proposal to be negotiated between BNSF and the PCC Railroad/Watco." <br /> <br />I proposed this very idea five years ago, aka allowing the shortlines to haul their 264k car lots onto Class I trackage as far as the nearest shuttle train facility, wherein the 264k cars would be unloaded either into the mega terminal elevators or directly into the 286k shuttle cars. This would allow the shortlines to compete in the shorthaul with trucks from country elevators to mega grain loading facilities. I was called "a communist in capitalists' clothes" by a fella named Kauffman for suggesting such a thing. And here BNSF is apparently embracing that very idea just a few years later! <br /> <br />Is there a check in the mail for ol' FM?[:p]
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