Comment EI-24163
Received or sent (printed as 6/28/2016)
Estimates are it costs over one million dollars to build a rail spur to load frieght onto a train track. The Great Lakes Basin Railroad, says they will let anyone with affected land connect onto the line. Exactly how are farmers going to pay for these connections? Also you need a commodities license to sell grain to anyplace other than a grain elevator/licensed grain production facility, you also need rail cars and th he ability to convince a train to stop and haul your product and bringthe railcar back to you, you also need some way to load the railcar. Please explain how a private farmer who has had their land ripped out from underthem going to be able to afford this expense. This proposal by the Great Lakes Basin Railroad is ludicrous. Nonemofmthe affected farms have the financial ability to do this. This delusional idea of how a farmer gets product to market is just one of the many flaws in the GLB proposal. Please explain how this portion of the plan is practical and profitable to the farmer. They can not sell their grain to just anyone, they must have an expensive commodities license to do so and they do not make millions of dollars a year to pay for a spur of their own. Please also explain where the land for these spurs will come from, oh thats right from the fields near the track right away, making the fields even smaller and less profitable.
Submitted by: Abe Henker · Mount Prospect, Il
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