HRSW Harvest

[bucket]

Farmaholic

Car rates have dropped considerably south of the border.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

Viterra at Killam loads the whole train... at times this summer many over 112 are spotted by CPrail here... I seriously doubt there is an actual problem with loading more railcars for the grain facility.

Our rail infrastructure has been upgraded for all the crude oil trains... and many 150car potash trains are run on this line by CPrail. Would be interesting to hear why the whole train wasn't spotted!

[TOM4CWB]

I believe the car spots have been about 135 here... if memory serves me correctly.

[wmoebis]

Tom do you think that your rail line has been upgraded because the oil and potash have been signaling to the rail roads, that they want to increase or at least maintain amount of traffic on the RR system?

[bucket]

Tom

The terminal at the end of the branchline loads 112. The concrete mid point only has a 38 car spot.

Both are on the same line serviced by moose jaw. Both are viterra.

The points are about 25 miles apart.

There is no good reason in harvest to be shorting a loading to the 38 car spot in harvest when the point at the end is getting serviced. Both are buying the same product for the same destination.

Still points to good enough reason not to vote conservative. They are not fixing the problems or looking at better efficiency as the regulator.

But the province isn't that bright either.

They are fixing highway 42 and they should be going around the town that has the concrete so it could expand to a 112 car spot as well. The highway limits the points expansion.

Yes I have told the highway ministry staffers my thoughts.

[bucket]

Higher car spots to points closer to end destination.

Railways can force farmers to truck grain furthur to make their bottom line look better.

I wonder how much of that goes into calculating the billions lost in western canada the last couple years?

[farmaholic]

Bucket, is that branch line capable of having a 150 car train? I don't know if it makes a difference, any steep grades? It's 33% bigger than the 112 there pulling to the end of the line now.

[bucket]

Farmaholic.

Moose jaw to the terminal at the end is flat.

[seabass]

Good thing we can stay on topic.

[bucket]

My wheat looks like crap.
Worst crop ever grown .