(Source: Salina Journal, March 3, 2015)
BEARDSLEY, Kan. — Until Jan. 19, R.J. Sabatka had two choices for transporting farm commodities to market from Beardsley Co-op in western Rawlins County — rail and truck. For the past 40 years, he said, 90 percent of the wheat sold to the co-op was sent to mills and other customers by rail. But on that day in January, OmniTRAX, a short-line railroad holding company, advised customers on the 130-mile Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway that the line had been shut down.
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