Excellent Story At The Bismarck Tribune On BNSF Efforts To Improve Service
The Bismarck Tribune is reporting, from Ross, North Dakota:
If that weren’t enough for a town with dirt streets that are rutted
and ragged — partly because oil workers have swelled the population from
50 people to 600 — the railroad is laying new track alongside town.
The
project is its most ambitious expansion here since the days when the
railroad was built with steam shovels and men swinging pick axes.
A
second, side-by-side track will double BNSF’s capacity between Minot
and Glendive, Mont., and hopefully unclog congestion, at least through
the Bakken.
The railway’s been under some pressure to get better
service to elevators to move grain out and fertilizer in. It reported
this month that it was still running an average of 26 days late.
It’s
investing $620 million along the northern corridor route to improve
that schedule. Sections of the new track will be usable this year and
all of it will be by next year, said BNSF spokeswoman Amy Mcbeth.
Overall,
BNSF invested $4 billion in expansion and maintenance last year and $5
billion this year, exceeding any historical investments in the industry
by any railroad, she said.
Here's a Bismarck Tribune article that implies a ethane cracker could come: which would create numerous other facilities.
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