This site features daily historical railroad posts from the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state. As a personal site, this is my online filing cabinet of interesting things I've come across about railroading in the area. Thanks for stopping by!
Shoutout to Kirtus Dolorina for stopping by to borrow other people's work!
I remember reading somewhere that the cost to wheat farmers immediately went up by at least 3 times the cost of shipping rail, and continued to climb after. Besides the infrasture burden now shifted to the public highways.
CWGG trucked most to Coulee City, after they built the huge concrete silos there. If the taxpayers weren't paying for the roads to haul, they would have gotten stuck with the cost of paying for the track, if the proposal had not failed. Either way it was a win for the railroad.
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I remember reading somewhere that the cost to wheat farmers immediately went up by at least 3 times the cost of shipping rail, and continued to climb after. Besides the infrasture burden now shifted to the public highways.
CWGG trucked most to Coulee City, after they built the huge concrete silos there. If the taxpayers weren't paying for the roads to haul, they would have gotten stuck with the cost of paying for the track, if the proposal had not failed. Either way it was a win for the railroad.
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