As system participants, our goal should be to have the best world grain logistics system. The goal here should be to have fewer cars, of a better quality, delivering higher throughput capacity for the farmers.
At CN, we envision changes that could allow us to improve cycle times by 33% or 35%, which would dramatically reduce the number of cars that have to be replaced over time, at the benefit of farmers and all the participants.
At the end of the day, though, what we need is the right number of cars to deliver the grain to market when the market asks for it--and that's throughput capacity.