Benton, Attached are the documents and spreadsheets I put together today that we discussed this morning. The first document, Annual Depreciation Expense per Locomotive, shows various methods used to find rates and calculate leasing costs for locomotives. Pages 2-5 also provide example documentation for these rates. In this case the UP Depreciation Expense exceeds the AAR’s West Index in some cases, while CSXT’s expenses are significantly lower than the AAR’s East Index. The next document is a consolidation of the spreadsheet Kaustuv sent earlier. For each railroad with either originating or terminating carloads over 20,000 I looked up the number of direct connecting railroads from the AAR handout. In many cases the 1994 short line and regional…
Why keep Millstone open? (Business Owner) According to the Hartford Courant (2017), Millstone gives Connecticut the opportunity to reduce high electric rates, meet carbon-reduction goals and ensure jobs for the state. Millstone should be kept open because of its benefits at the state and local level. Millstone produces electricity to power 2 million homes, supports 12,000 jobs in the region, and generates the equivalent of half the electricity used by Connecticut. In a study done by the NEI…
Railroad Deregulation in Europe and United States Assignment: By Charmaine Silva TLMT352 Distribution Systems Dr. Carmen K. Mousel, PhD Railroad Deregulation ins EU and US Railways were the leading innovation in the early 19th century, and economic long cycle research (Ayres 1990) has argued it to have sullen the economic wealth in that time (industrialization, and especially steam power, iron and cotton textiles were the enabling factoring in the first approx. 55 year long wave).…
based on citizen cooperation, best-available shelter options until the shelter deficit can be reduced, and a regional approach to evacuation decision-making is effectively implemented (Lexington). -Convergent groups of responders impede the effort (Lexington). -Competition among the population for resources could occur. -Evacuation could be inadequate I meeting time thresholds (Lexington). The town of Lexington, located in Fayette County, in the Bluegrass Region of the state has an area of…