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Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 05-24-2016 - 12:00

F. Wrote:
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> I just read a column in the LA Times about coming
> "water wars" over the Colorado River water supply.
>
> [www.latimes.com]
> -mead-water-20160523-snap-story.html
>
> While the writer only talks about the Colorado
> River, my thought is, could tank trains bring
> water to Arizona and California from other states
> willing to sell surplus water? Whereas a pipeline
> is fixed in place, a train has the flexibility to
> go to any water source from Michigan to Montana.

As a newly minted Montanan, I can tell you there would be a big fight over sending so much as a single train of water to California. Of course we would be happy to send some coal trains that way!

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