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Title:The Cost of Transporting Coal from Gascoyne, North Dakota, to Big Stone, South Dakota: A Preliminary Analysis
Authors:Denver Tolliver
Publication Date:Feb 1983
Report #:SP-49
TRID #:01790160
Keywords:coal, costs, economic analysis, railroad transportation
Type:Research Report – Staff Papers

Abstract

This report constitutes a preliminary analysis of the cost of transporting coal from Gascoyn, North Dakota, to Big Stone, South Dakota. The movement has been analyzed using Rail Form A costs for the Burlington Northern Railroad in conjunction with annualized rehabilitation cost estimates, which have been approximated using a market interest rate.

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