While taking a trip by car this past Monday. We encountered several tractor trailers that were hauling these ingots, one ingot per load. I suddenly realized that MR. Corman's Ingot trains are removing large trucks from the highways of the Commonwealth of Kentucky at the rate of two per each one of his rail cars. These trains also lower some of the wear and damage to our state's roadways. Even though these unit trains do return to Berea, Ky. empty. They do earn their place in the plus column of the railroad's ledgers, and keep the owners of Commonwealth Aluminum and Logan Aluminum satisfied with the service provided. There trains average approximately thirty cars, thus remove approximately sixty "Big Rigs" from the roade several times per week. The entire route of these trains is in our state and thus keeps Kentuckians employed at both ends of the haul, as well as the R.J. Corman crews that run and service these trains.
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