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Re: Marin Dairyman want NWP open to ease hi truck costs
Author: jdm
Date: 04-28-2008 - 22:12
the grain or feed products that could come in by rail can only move via UP to CNFR, from there as CNFR is closed to the BNSF. In most cases UP wants 25 or more cars in a block to give a any kind of rate better than single car. Can these feed mills take up to 25 cars at one time.
UP would only like to run 75 to 100 car unit trains of grain, DDG or other feed products.
Do these feed mills have a feel from how much they could use in a week, how long are there track and how much on site storage do they have.
Most of the feed for this area and the valley comes in unit trains and then is transloaded and trucked to the end users. With the discount in unit train rates, up until the price of diesel fuel went through the roof these mills could by feed products from a large grain distributor in the Valley and truck it for a rate less than a single car rate on the UP. Can any of these mills take a unit train. and can they hold a unit train in storage.
UP would only like to run 75 to 100 car unit trains of grain, DDG or other feed products.
Do these feed mills have a feel from how much they could use in a week, how long are there track and how much on site storage do they have.
Most of the feed for this area and the valley comes in unit trains and then is transloaded and trucked to the end users. With the discount in unit train rates, up until the price of diesel fuel went through the roof these mills could by feed products from a large grain distributor in the Valley and truck it for a rate less than a single car rate on the UP. Can any of these mills take a unit train. and can they hold a unit train in storage.
