MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Canadian Pacific Railway says it has reduced a backlog of grain car orders, but BNSF Railway says it still has some late deliveries.
Grain elevators in North Dakota for months have struggled to get the rail cars they need to move harvested crops to market, due to delays caused by increased shipments of oil and other products. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board last October ordered railroads to give more details on shipping.
CP Rail says it finished last week with no grain shipments waiting in the U.S. Ten weeks earlier it had a backlog of 1,886 deliveries.
BNSF says it made further cuts to late deliveries, but as of Feb. 15 still had 1,482 late deliveries with an average wait of nearly 17 days. BNSF had a high of 4,469 late deliveries on Jan. 3.