Maximum Revenue Entitlement. ...

[farmaholic]

Recommendations I read between the lines:

Maintain Revenue cap but likely going up (talk about incentivizing the RRs to invest in rolling stock).

Limited interswitching....not good for us, reduces competition. Would have been nice to see more not less.

More reporting.

Penalties for poor/non performance. Does that mean rewards for good performance?

Hopalong, not what you were looking for?

I don't think commodity Ag can handle/afford an unregulated freight/transportation industry. ..

[farming101]

Just looked at CPR first quarter financials

Grain revenue up over 7%
Revenue from hauling one ton of grain one mile up 5.54%
This includes US business

Largest single source of income - Grain

An incentive? Really?

[15444]

Here I thought this was a post about some new Trudeau policy to siphon more money from this country to the UN.

[Rareearth]

Cargo Capacity

Common 15-barge river tow has the same capacity as 1,050 trucks and 216 railcars pulled by six locomotives.

A loaded, covered hopper barge transporting wheat carries enough product to make almost 2.5 million loaves of bread, or the equivalent of one loaf of bread for almost every person in the state of Kansas.

A loaded tank barge transporting gasoline carries enough product to satisfy the current annual gasoline demand of approximately 2,500 people.

The amount of cargo currently transported on major rivers is equivalent to more than 49 million truck trips annually that would have to travel on the nation's roadways in lieu of water transportation.

Fuel Efficiency

Barges are superior in terms of fuel efficiency. Barges are able to move a ton of cargo 647 miles with a single gallon of fuel, up from 616 miles in the last study. Trains move a ton of cargo 477 miles per gallon, while trucks move a ton of cargo 145 miles per gallon.

Safety

The study determined that, after adjusting for differences in cargo quantity moved by each mode, for every one member of the public injured in a barge accident, 80.4 are injured in rail accidents and 824 are injured in truck accidents. For fatalities, there are 79 trucking-related deaths and 21.9 rail-related deaths for every one barge-related deaths.

Environment

In regard to environmental impacts, the study noted that spills of more than 1,000 gal. are at a very low rate for barges, at 2.12 gal. per million ton-miles, while rail came in at a rate of 5.95 and trucks at 6.04.

Inland towing mode is significantly improving and inland waterway transport generates far fewer emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide than rail or truck per million ton miles. Trucks alone generate 154.2 tons, or 10 times more emissions than barges per ton-mile of cargo moved.

Infrastructure

Significant infrastructure impacts could occur if waterborne freight had to be diverted to highways. Approximately 2 inches of asphalt would have to be added to the pavement of 118,688 lane miles of rural interstate given the higher levels of expected 20 year truck loadings, assuming an even truck traffic distribution over the national highway system.

[farmaholic]

I get the picture Rareearth.... time to flood the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers along with the Qu'Appelle Valley?

[Rareearth]

Or better rail access to the Mississippi

Rail is way more efficient than truck

[farmaholic]

Does it have the capacity for the extra traffic?

[Rareearth]

Back to flooding the valley

We have reached "peak river fow". The main water flow in those rivers is from snow and glacier ice melt in the mountains. With the glacier melt having reached it peak expect less flow into the rivers. I don't see them running dry in the next 500 years.

[farmaholic]

IPDE.... Like driving, how to prevent an accident:

Identify
Predict
Decide
Execute

Where are we and where should we be.

If you spend more time looking in the rearview mirror than ahead through the windshield you increase your chances of having a wreck. Glance back every once in awhile but stay focused on whats ahead of you. Be prepared. Are we?

[westernvicki]

CN shares best investment ever.

[sumdumguy]

Guess the most valuable lesson in economics was in the Monopoly box hidden under my couch.

[ColevilleH2S]

Back to flooding the valley

We have reached "peak river fow". The main water flow in those rivers is from snow and glacier ice melt in the mountains. With the glacier melt having reached it peak expect less flow into the rivers. I don't see them running dry in the next 500 years.

Is the Mississippi glacier fed?