5 Mar
2002
5 Mar
'02
9:34 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
This does beg the question... Who exactly is paying for this, and to
what gain? I think someone's point of it not really being cost-
effective (even for the scrap) is worth investigating. Maybe it is.
I can't imagine it's more expensive to produce a ton of steel from
salvaged rails than it is to do the same from iron ore.
Still, it'd be interesting to know who's fronting the labor to do it,
and what money is backing it.
-brian.
Where has rail
been ripped up? I've never heard of that happening. Is
it a national trend?
We've had quite a lot ripped out here in Oregon.