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Is UPS quitting the railroads?
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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 1305004" data-attributes="member: 13921"><p>I have seen ground and freight on trains.</p><p></p><p>UPS is not the only rail shipper hurting right now. We have a coal fired power plant south of our center and the reserve coal pile is almost gone. I delivered there the other day and asked about it and he said that another power plant ran out of coal, cannot get rail shipments so they are getting coal as close as they can with barges and trucking it to the power plant.</p><p></p><p>Trucking that kind of volume of coal has got to be a losing proposition. </p><p></p><p>BNSF is building a 2nd mainline in ND and is rumored to be planning to add mainline near me. That will help trains that are heading to the west coast or coming from there, but does nothing to clear the congestion east of Chicago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 1305004, member: 13921"] I have seen ground and freight on trains. UPS is not the only rail shipper hurting right now. We have a coal fired power plant south of our center and the reserve coal pile is almost gone. I delivered there the other day and asked about it and he said that another power plant ran out of coal, cannot get rail shipments so they are getting coal as close as they can with barges and trucking it to the power plant. Trucking that kind of volume of coal has got to be a losing proposition. BNSF is building a 2nd mainline in ND and is rumored to be planning to add mainline near me. That will help trains that are heading to the west coast or coming from there, but does nothing to clear the congestion east of Chicago. [/QUOTE]
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