Re: Stampede Pass / Containerized Grain
Author: Donovan Gray
Date: 02-27-2007 - 14:58
BNSF could use Stampede Pass now for grain shipments, but apparently chooses not to because of grades (not clearances), opting instead to send grain trains down the Columbia water-level grade. BNSF does use Stampede for returning grain empties eastward. So the big swap of the eastside rail line for Boeing Field to provide funds to (among other things) crown out Stampede for container traffic doesn't affect westbound grain shipments one way or the other.