Farmers and grain shippers have been complaining for several months that the two major railroads serving North Dakota – BNSF and CP Rail – have been late getting grain cars to the elevators.
They sometimes blame the oil industry – which ships about 60 percent of the crude oil produced in the Bakken by rail.
Now the federal Surface Transportation Board is holding a hearing in Fargo Thursday to hear from the shippers – and the railroads – about the problems.
Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson has the story.