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Wellstone ruled

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8. The Rails are going to gauge
Sat Dec 21, 2019, 03:12 PM
Dec 2019

as long as no one is enforcing the Surface Transportation Acts. It is a percentage game,40% content rules means that segment is ripe for abuse.

Couple of phone calls or texts,and bingo,we got a new Industry Freight Rate. Wink and a Nod. Somebody has to pay for all those Rail Cars owned by Hedge Funds. Anytime you have a Lease,abuses will be lurking. Now with Thousands of Loco's out of service due to the collapse of the Coal Industry as well as Trump's Tariff's on China and other Countries,Cereal Grains are not moving from the Heartland to the Posts for shipment.

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