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5. Meanwhile, DOT-111s are being cranked out as fast as possible...

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 07:30 PM

Feb 2014

I can't imagine many of the tank car lessors (i.e., banks) that bought any of the thousands of DOT-111s built in the past decade will be too thrilled to see their investment banned from the rails. Is a federal buyback or retrofit program on the horizon?

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