What if it Snows?

A google search came up with this?
Union Pacific train derails west of Deming
Granted the story is almost a year old.

 

News travels slowly in these parts

 

That makes more sense than what I was coming up with, in terms of location. There's a FORTUNE in scrap metal right next to the freeway...for any enterprising souls.

 

Think of the cost to take possession of all that leased equipment. The scrap value would get eaten up doing the paperwork, paying someone to cut it up, load it, and then the truckers to haul it away.

If it was a money maker the railroad would have already done it.

 

Not zuccuni bread

 

You are on to something there. There's a place I know where a flatbed driver can get some real nice chain, because the railroad is scrapping it. You need clearance and a reason to be on a military base though.

 

Just looked it up, Scrap steel is in the neighborhood of $100 per ton so a 20 ton load (40,000 pounds) will get you a $2k check.

Not sure where the closest large processor is but would you be money ahead by the time you pay to process it/cut it up, load it, and do a round trip?

 

####, there's still got to be a FORTUNE there.

 

A person would be better off rebuilding it and selling it back to the railroad, instead of 2 grand probably 250 grand profit