Posted by Fixerupper on March 18, 2011 at 09:08:36 from (207.199.205.40):
In Reply to: Grain Train posted by Eric in IL on March 18, 2011 at 07:36:35:
I don't think any corn leaves this part of Iowa on rail because of the ethanol plants. Now the cars leave town with DDG's or ethanol. Beans still go out on the rail. It's 100 unit trains and the cars have to be loaded in, I think, forteen hours after the cars arrive or the railroad gets grouchy. Then the loaded cars sit there for days waiting for the locomotives to come back. Go figure!
Elevators that used to load 50 car units have quit loading trains so now it's trucked 875 bushels at a time 30 miles more-or-less to an elevator that loads 100 cars. Where's the efficiency in that? Why can't an elevator that owns two branches 30 miles apart on the same rail line put together two 50 car trains, one from each location, instead of hauling it down the road in trucks to one loading facility that loads 100's? Duh! Jim
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