Re: Stampede Pass / Containerized Grain
Author: Bruce Kelly
Date: 02-27-2007 - 16:02
DG, I didn't say unit grain was currently avoiding Stampede because of the tunnel. Nor did I say unit grain would begin traveling there after clearance is increased. Only containerized grain. Or should I say, there's an increased likelihood of it. If I gave the wrong impression, I apologize. Containerized grain could simply be added in blocks to existing intermodals or manifests that would already be traveling that way, within tonnage limits for the 2.2%, of course. Much like the Rabanco stacks that are picked up from the Parkwater ramp by westbounds (often a stack train) and forwarded to the Roosevelt landfill terminal, and then brought back east (again, often by a stack train).