Railcars

[bucket]

It seems the price tag of a new railcar is around 100,000.


Maybe farmers should buy a new fleet ....it's just the cost of a new duramax. ....negotiate a freight rate and lease with whoever....and create a rail traffic controlder (that's a borrowed idea ) and send cars to elevators that are 80 percent of their next loading or shipping .

Elevators would be able to bank loading times when cars are not picked up. So let's say in the summer they load in 24 hours and the cars sit for 4 days .... later in the winter they could be allowed those days to load safely in daylight or less wintery conditions.


Just throwing it out there but if farmers owned and controlled the cars....I think the overall infrastructure could be put to better use.

Tell me why the grain cos can't coordinate cars from multiple points to unload properly at port in the 10 days it takes to get there. Rather than trucking grain to a single point.

It would also be a good time to negotiate a freight rate with oil and potash numbers down.

[bucket]

4000 rail cars would cost 400 million.

4000 cars at 12 turns at 40 bucks a tonne at 100 tonnes is 192 million gross revenue per year.

Now if we as a rail traffic controller could get a back haul the possibility fir more revenue increases.

[Rareearth]

Back hauls like 3 year off shore fertilizer contracts?

Imports where price protection, and guarantees are ensured and related to domestic urea and potash prices preventing all the pricing games that happen domestically. A loss for3 years of local customers would change the way manufactures and large bulk storage wholesalers think about competitiveness.

[bucket]

Think about a hub that could send grain out bring fertilizer back. Every week.

[RD414]

Seen a train of grain cars at P&H in Biggar a while back, 120 cars, all brand new and all painted P&H colors. Load when you want when they are yours.

[Blaithin]

Might be able to load when you want but the lines are still CP and CN as are the engines. You're relying and waiting on them.

Lack of cars isn't the main issue for terminals, it's lack of engines. Even if you bought an engine you'd still need CPs permission to use "their" line. Which then ends up working based on their dispatching schedules as, afaik, the lines all merge at key points like the yards in Calgary. Which means if there's ten CP trains scheduled to depart from and arrive in the yards, you'd then have to let them schedule you in to get through.

Not to mention the logistics of getting through the mountains as there's only three lines going through.

[biglentil]

Hauling grain in style:

https://youtu.be/JO76dkzV28k