Today Marin I-J has a front page article about West Marin Dairyman who are being pinched by high trucking costs. A reopened NWP would bring grain, feed and other bulk agricultural products right to Novato and West Marin where Dairymans Milling and Hunt and Berhens can truck the last few miles to farms and ranches west of 101. In the article, Marin Supervisor is quoted as saying. "I am very sympathetic to (dairy farmers') struggle to keep their head above water economically," said Supervisor Judy Arnold, who represents Novato. "But someone has yet to explain to me the economics of bringing grain from the Central Valley to Novato on a rail line that runs north to south. I don't understand where the savings comes from." Read above Misty ESQ, AKA Judy Arnold. Its the trucks coming all the way from the Central Valley that costs much more than rail costs. Follow the bouncing ball. The cars are loaded in the Valley or the Mid-west for that matter and are interchanged from the UP at Fairfield and are handled by the Cal. Northern to the re-opened NWP at Lombard and then to Novato. Your quote again shows your ignorance to railroad operations, the economies or rail freight and how cars move from one area to another. You have a lot to learn and explains some of your ridiculous comments.