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...“You actually have to pay someone to take your cars,” says Dan Mack, vice-president of agricultural transportation and terminals at CHS, a large US grain merchant....
...The case for transport stocks rests largely on wider US and global activity as the rail and shipping behemoths depend on increases in trade to fill rail cars and cargo holds....
...In an unusual move for a federal watchdog, the Surface Transportation Board last month sat in a hotel in Fargo, North Dakota, to hear about the rail service in the state....
...However, the Surface Transportation Board, the US rail regulator, has expressed concerns about the robustness of CP’s plans to improve service and asked it to “clarify ambiguities”....
...Both GE Transportation and Caterpillar are co-operating with railroads in trials of the new technology due to start later this year....
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