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End in Sight for Railroad Traffic Jams?


FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RAIL OPERATORS have warned us for years: Unless we plan now and start to prepare and expand, there will be an intolerable slowdown on Ameri- ca’s railroads. That, of course, would mean trains with shorter headways while carrying vital shipments of appliances, grain, oil, au- tomobiles and almost every other compo- nent of America’s commerce and our daily living requirements. That would also apply to the commerce involved in the transporta- tion of people (passengers) to conference lo- cations and workplaces. It is axiomatic: The more trains within a


relative short space on the rails (especially in both directions) the higher the risk of a serious problem, possibly a disaster. That’s why Positive Train Control (PTC) with its end-of-2015 deadline has become so contro- versial, but that’s another story. We told you so: This reporter recalls


years ago when the Association of American Railroads (AAR) held a news conference with maps and charts specifically showing where the traffic jams on the rails would materialize and how some of our most vital industries would take the hit. The AAR then chose a committee room on the House side of Capitol Hill, as if to make a point. The facil- ity happened to be the location of many a


hearing by the Committee on Transporta- tion and Infrastructure, then chaired by the late Rep. James “Jim” Oberstar (D-Minn.). The chairman, long a fervent supporter of the railroad industry, was very much aware of the acute challenge to America’s trains. This press location could have been suggest- ed by pro-rail forces to deliver the message to colleagues who were less inclined to con- front an obvious challenge. But again, “we told you so?”: “The


whole system is suffering,” says Terry Whiteside, who chairs the Alliance for Rail competition, a shipper group (often at odds with railroads). At a field hearing, of the fed- eral Surface Transportation Board (STB) in Fargo, N.D., he told Russell Hubbard of the Omaha World-Herald that “rail speeds are falling nationwide, and that should be a con- cern for all producers.” Case in point: Additionally, the North


Dakota Public Service Commission also has more than a casual interest in the plight of the farmers in a state where a monumental increase in daily shipments of oil in the last five years have added new competition for space on the rails. The Bakken shale oil boom has been a blessing for North Dakota’s economy where unemployment has reached all-time lows, but it also means slower rail


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