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Dan Robirds

September 10, 2008 02:14PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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The days of a million dollars for a mile of new/recreated railroad are long gone.

San Joaquin Valley just abandoned 30 1/2 miles of track. The county offered to buy it, but just backed out when the STB set the net scrap value at $3.3+ million.

That works out to about $108,000 per mile just in scrap value, after the scrapper salvages the material, replaces the crossings, and does any enviromental remediation. UP still owns the land, so that was not even considered.

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How far do the tracks extend south from Chama?	superfleet	September 08, 2008 11:43AM
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Re: How far do the tracks extend south from Chama?	DRGW489	September 08, 2008 10:30PM
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Re: How far do the tracks extend south from Chama?	DRGW489	September 08, 2008 11:25PM
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Re: How far do the tracks extend south from Chama?	superfleet	September 11, 2008 01:33PM
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So What If?	1972FordF-100	September 08, 2008 08:24PM
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Re: So What If?	Dan Robirds	September 10, 2008 02:14PM
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