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Message:: [QUOTE="Burky, post: 299243, member: 1757"]Well, the rail comes from Rocky Mountain Steel Mills of Colorado or from Mittal Steel of Steelton Pa, since they are the only suppliers of rail in the country at this time. There is one other company hoping to join the fray, Steel Dynamics of Columbus City In, but as of yet they are not in production. If you drive down US 30, you can see the part of the plant where they have built the facilities for handling the long continuous strings of rail. As for rail coming in from overseas, since most of the railroads buy rail in 1/4 mile long welded strings, not much comes from overseas. Kind of hard to handle that length of a piece of steel, much less stow it on a ship for transport. In fact, there are very few docks commercially that could handle a ship well over a 1/4 mile long, and to have an uninterrupted cargo hold that would haul those pieces of rail would be quite a piece of seagoing engineering. But, I suppose, one of the "Elites" could make the rail come in from overseas if it were really part of their master plan. Could you give us a name or two, while you are out there in electron land, typing away???[/QUOTE]