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An odd question.

This link gives the individual cost breakdown for components. You'll need 3,249 ties, for instance. which means 6,498 tie plates. And 173 pieces of 30' rail--per side.

Your question doesn't ask about tie plates, spikes, bolts, fishplates. The numbers on this link also doesn't take into account transport, loading costs, unloading costs, labor, grading, tamping, etc.

Either way, it's going to be A LOT of money. I'm guessing between $500,000 and $1M.

 

 

 

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So using the numbers for the least-expensive components on the link I used, we have this breakdown:

3,249 ties per mile at $74.25 each = $241,238.25

Rail costs $33.15 per linear foot. 5,280 x $33.15, multiplied by two, is $350,064.00

At $10.75 each, you spend $69,853.50 for two tie plates per rail per mile.

We'll go cheap and only use four spikes per tie (two per rail). At $1.00 each, that's $12,996.00

That's $674,151.75, not counting ballast, fishplates, bolts, and all labor and shipping costs.

Years ago I heard a figure bantied about that it costs an average of a million a mile to restore rail service.   My presumption is that one mile might be $500k of simple track material and the next mile have $5m in bridge restoration and grading.

Thus for me the magic number I'd need to just restore the 44 miles of EBT from Mt. Union to Robertsdale would be a nice round $44 million.    

I do believe it's actually around 40 miles not including the old ROW to the Woodvale and Alvan mines,

Now how much of a check the Kovalchicks want for the ROW is another subject for fascinating conjecture.

 

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