(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, April 6, 2014)
LINCOLN, Neb. — The big railroads on this side of the continent are making more money than ever in what’s been called a renaissance for them, shipping unprecedented volumes of oil, along with ethanol, coal and agricultural commodities.
That makes investors happy. But last year’s harvest, winter’s unusually harsh weather, competition for locomotives, the multiplication of crude oil traffic from the Northern Plains and other factors have combined to make things “miserable,” as John Meuret of his family’s grain business in Brunswick put it, for rail customers such as he.
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