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Title: Feds say railroad must deliver grain to California chickens
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URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-rai ... t-deliver-grain-221039256.html
Published: Jan 3, 2023
Author: JOSH FUNK
Post Date: 2023-01-03 19:19:09 by Dakmar
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Views: 300
Comments: 14
MAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to make sure a livestock producer gets the grain it needs in California to prevent millions of chickens and hundreds of thousands of cattle from starving. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board told the railroad it must improve service to Foster Farms to keep it from running out of feed for livestock it raises. It's is the second time in the past year regulators issued an emergency order related to delivery problems at Foster Farms, which is based in Livingston, California, as the railroad struggled with a shortage of crews. This time, however, Union Pacific blamed the weather for its problems. Spokesman Mike Jaixen said last month's extreme cold and blizzard conditions slowed deliveries in 20 of the 23 western states the railroad operated in, and additional problems are possible because of the forecast for more severe winter weather. “Union Pacific remains committed to serving all of our customers as efficiently as possible, including Foster Farms, weather permitting,” Jaixen said. Foster Farms called on the STB to get Union Pacific to give priority to grain trains heading from the Midwest to the livestock producer's facilities in Traver, Turlock, and Delhi, California. Union Pacific said the problems at Foster Farms should improve once five trains hauling corn that are already en route arrive, but Jaixen declined to provide an update on those trains Tuesday. The railroad is submitting updates to the STB, but it wants to keep that customer-specific information confidential. Foster Farms attorney Thomas Wilcox said in a letter to regulators that the company has little faith that UP will deliver on its promises because the railroad has failed to deliver any of its grain trains on time in the past two weeks. So in the meantime, Foster Farms has been buying dozens of truckloads of expensive corn to keep its chickens alive while it waits for the grain trains to be delivered, but those truck deliveries can't continue to meet its needs. Union Pacific said its performance has improved since the spring when Foster Farms and many other shippers went before the STB to complain about chronic delivery problems at most of the major freight railroads that were disrupting their businesses. UP and the other major freight railroads have hired hundreds of new workers since the start of the year to help them better handle all the shipments. But railroad executives acknowledge that their service still isn't meeting customer expectations and must continue to improve. Regulators also recently criticized Union Pacific's practice of imposing limits on customer shipments as part of its effort to clear up congestion along the Omaha, Nebraska, based railroad's network of 32,400 miles (about 52,000 kilometers) of track across the Western half of the United States. Poster Comment: Let me guess, Foster Farms is Pelosi owned?
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
From the title, I was sure this was a Babylon Bee article. Clown World has me flummoxed. I was thinking Warren Buffet owned UPRR, but must have been mistaken. I was like "Now they are going after Buffet, what the hell has happened?"
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
California ain't a safe place for trains.
Was it the Chessie System CSX? I can't remember. My mother invested in CSX because their logo was a cat.
On November 3, 2009, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it would acquire the remaining 77.4 percent of BNSF it did not already own for $100 per share in cash and stock—a deal valued at $44 billion. The company is investing an estimated $34 billion in BNSF and acquiring $10 billion in debt.[7][8][9][10][11] On February 12, 2010, shareholders of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation voted in favor of the acquisition.[12] BNSF and its chief competitor, the Union Pacific Railroad, have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern and Southern United States[13] and share trackage rights over thousands of miles of track. It makes sense now, fuck over Buffet's free market competitor (UP). “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
"BIPOC Gangs Allowed to Loot Union Pacific Railyards while FBI Guards BNSF." :)
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Without looking it up, I think that's the remnants of New York Central/Pennsylvania RR/Long Island RR, and maybe Illinois Central, B&O, and one of the "East Coast something" that ran to Florida. They all became Conrail in early 1970's, FedGov's attempt do to freight rail what it had done to passenger traffic with AmTrak, but heads would have rolled once they were unable to deliver freight, especially coal, oil, and ore. I know Clinchfield was absorbed somewhere along the way, they were never a big money player but were essential to coal routes. They blasted something like 20 tunnels in 3 years to lay that line, very impressive. I got to ride an excursion train from Elkhorn City, KY, to Spartanburg, SC near the end of Clinchfield's life as an independent. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
BUT IT'S GOT A CAT FOR ITS LOGO! Don't you know anything about investing? Sheesh. Chessie came from Chesapeake & Ohio, another strand of flesh ground into ConRail.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#2. To: Esso (#1)
#3. To: Dakmar (#0)
#4. To: Dakmar (#2)
I was thinking Warren Buffet owned UPRR...
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#5. To: Dakmar (#0)
#6. To: StraitGate (#5)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#7. To: Esso (#4)
BNSF
#8. To: StraitGate (#5)
#9. To: Dakmar (#8)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#10. To: Esso, StraitGate (#4)
Chessie System CSX
#11. To: Esso (#9)
#12. To: Dakmar (#10)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#13. To: Esso (#12)
(Edited)
#14. To: Esso (#12)
BUT IT'S GOT A CAT FOR ITS LOGO! Don't you know anything about investing?
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