Re: Coal volume

From: Eric
Location: MN
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Remote Name: 68.191.153.1
Date: 09.28.06
Time: 12:59:25 AM

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Footers loading at SMET this year have been averaging about 64,000 short tons per trip, or about 570 rail cars. If I remember correctly, the maximum cargo of coal any footer on the lakes could theoretically carry is about 73,000 short tons, or about 650 railcars.

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