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Re: Senate OK's more money to NCRA/NWP
Author: Bit
Date: 05-31-2007 - 13:45
From the NCRA's NORTH COAST RAILROAD AUTHORITY (NCRA)
2006 STRATEGIC PLAN and PROGRESS REPORT:
One estimate has suggested that if the railroad is reopened and the port container handling facilities are upgraded, up to 1,000 containers per day double-stacked could be moved to and from the Port of Humboldt Bay to the national rail system. Using an average revenue per railcar of $1,000, this results in $130 million per year based on a five-day per week hauling schedule.
From Bit's message (above) I'd be interested to learn how the NCRA arrived at a figure of
$1000 per railcar. That's a pretty impressive number and suggests that any connecting road would donate their share of the revenue division to the ultimate destination.