Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> David Smith Wrote:
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> > Boise will find out what Lewiston learned a
> decade
> > ago - neither UP nor BNSF is interested in the
> > short haul to the coast.
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> If this is true, then how do you explain the BNSF
> grain trains from the shuttle loader elevator at
> Ritzville to the coast?. This distance is
> considerably shorter than Boise, yet BNSF seems
> quite interested in unit trains from Ritzville.

Unit trains are a whole different story. Sorry, you're not going to get 100 car intermodal trains running between the Puget Sound and the Treasure Valley in one month, let alone once a week like the Ritzville shuttle. There's too much freight that needs to move in too many disparate directions to and from the Treasure Valley to make any attempts at dedicated aggregated consists consistent. As for that cheese outfit, if they're trucking to SLC for rail haul back through the TV to the Puget Sound, then they need to fire their shipping exec(s). Be about the same distance to truck to Boardman Oregon.