I think the most important thing to remember is that, from a grain perspective, all grain starts on a truck, and it is delivered to an elevator, to a point, by truck. Short-lines are competing with those trucks, but they're still accepting the product from a truck. For a short-line to compete, what they want is to be compensated fairly for moving the traffic from point A to point B. The interswitching provisions have not been used that much, and therefore there hasn't been the greatest impact. But I think that just tells you that it's not a tool that does short-lines any good. Really what they're telling us is that they want to work within a commercial framework and negotiate with the parties to move that traffic.
On September 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.