Rail Companies Issue New Status Report on Grain Car Backlog

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Today Congressman Kevin Cramer announced BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have publicly filed their fifth weekly status updates on the backlog in grain shipments. The figures from BNSF show a total of 3,359 past due rail cars in North Dakota averaging 23.6 days late as of July 25, compared to the report last week which indicated 3,908 past due cars were averaging 26.6 days late. The CP report shows a total of 22,811 open requests in North Dakota with an average age of 11.15 weeks. The previous report showed 23,761 open requests with an average age of 10.72 weeks.

"It is crucial the rail companies get their systems in the best possible shape in order to move the approaching harvest," said Cramer. "BNSF has posted another week of substantial reductions to their backlog, while CP has much more work to do. I met yesterday with BNSF President Carl Ice and I plan on speaking with the CEO of Canadian Pacific next week."

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