Ken Lucht

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  Shipping by rail, said Ken Lucht, the company's community development manager, can be a big money saver.About a third of the product shipped by rail in this area is grain-related, he said.

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  The cars will leave the plant with their ethanol cargo destined for national markets, said Ken Lucht, Wisconsin & Southern community development spokesman.
  
  Milton has actively pursued new residents for its industrial parks, Lucht said.

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  The company inspects the lines two to three times a week, more than federally required, said Ken Lucht, community development manager.
  
  Since the derailments, the company has instituted a 10 mph speed limit in the area and installed extra rail ties to temporarily strengthen the track, he said.
  
  "The issues that are happening in the town of Fulton aren't related to lack of maintenance or negligence on behalf of the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co.," he said.
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  Wisconsin & Southern has requested $6 million of that for upgrades in Rock County, Lucht said.
  
  The company drafted the resolution supporting upgrade money because it felt it would be more effective than an investigation, he said.

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  The trackage rights would allow the trains to head directly from Horicon into Milwaukee, and then to Rondout on CP rails, said Ken Lucht, a WSOR spokesman.
  
  WSOR currently has trackage rights over the Metra lines from Rondout into Chicago.
  
  "It would certainly alleviate some of the bottlenecks we see at our Pearl Street operation in Janesville," Lucht said, adding that the agreement with CP would give WSOR a secondary route for rail shipments from the Horicon and northeast Wisconsin markets.
  
  "Even though Janesville will lose cars due to the diversion of some grain trains, our business is growing, and Janesville is a very critical part of our system," Lucht said.
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  "At this point, we just don't know what it will mean for Janesville," Lucht said.
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  Mineral Point officials, however, have indicated they have no interest in rail service to their community, Lucht said.
  
  Shullsburg officials, on the other hand, are interested in rail service that would tie into a business and highway development on the community's east side, he said.
  
  "We have two or three investors who are very interested in southwest Wisconsin if they can get rail service," Lucht said."We've been working with officials in Rock, Green, Lafayette and Iowa counties to provide rail service to a number of communities that have been without it for years."
  
  Lucht said system traffic is growing and the railroad continues to work with state officials on funding for track upgrades.
  
  "We're trying our best to keep up with all of it," he said.

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  Ken Lucht, community development manager for the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, couldn't be reached.

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  Earlier this month, Wisconsin & Southern petitioned to have the crossing closed permanently, said Ken Lucht, community development manager for the railroad company.
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  But Lucht said that might not be the case. Because the railroad doesn't use the bridge, it has no reason or ability to inspect it, Lucht said.
  
  "We don't know how to inspect it," Lucht said.
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  Drivers seem to have adapted to a closed North Road Bridge, Lucht said.
  
  That's good for the railroad, he said.
  
  Train frequency has increased 18 percent in two years, Lucht said. Wisconsin & Southern predicts the frequency will increase by another 25 percent, he said.
  
  Twice a day, trains run over North Road between Janesville and Chicago. In addition, local delivery trains use that section of the railroad for a staging area when they get ready to switch onto a spur to Darien, Delavan and Elkhorn, Lucht said.
  
  It gets tricky, because the trains can't block a crossing for very long, Lucht said.
  
  "If there wasn't a crossing there, it would be much better for our operations," Lucht said.

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  Wisconsin & Southern spokesman Ken Lucht said railroad work would mean instant jobs and material sales locally and domestically.
  
  "This certainly will stimulate the economy if we give it a chance," Lucht said.
  
  Wisconsin & Southern has projects that are planned and approved. They merely await funding, Lucht said. State grants and Wisconsin & Southern funding are available but are not enough to cover all the upgrades the railroad has in mind, he said.
  
  "These are truly ready-to-go projects," Lucht said. "The permits are obtained, the projects planned. They are merely backlogged because of a lack of funding."
  
  If the projects were approved, they would create 200 permanent and seasonal jobs in 2009 as well as $125 million in domestic materialsâ€"many bought locally, Lucht said. If projects extend into 2010, they would create another 100 jobs, he said.
  
  The ability to support local jobs and businesses was one reason the state chose to go into partnership with the railroads, Lucht said. Another is the money the state saves in highway maintenance when freight is shipped on railroads rather than highways, he said.
  
  The railroad companies maintain the railway infrastructure, he said.
  
  As and example, people living between Janesville and Monroe would see construction along the railroad right away if Doyle's proposal is approved, Lucht said. Work would start at Pearl Street in Janesville and would continue through the communities of Orfordville, Brodhead and Juda, he said.
  
  That rail line ships locally produced grain, plastics, fertilizer and ethanol, Lucht said.
  
  Lucht anticipates the list of approved projects in January or early February.

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  WSOR community development manager Ken Lucht said of the potential: "with the port being better utilized, the city will receive greater revenue than it does now."
  
  Lucht continued: "To the greater Prairie du Chien area and adjoining counties, this port if utilized to its maximum potential can create markets for certain commodities that don't exist now.

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  Ken Lucht, community development manager for the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, couldn 't be reached.

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  Ken Lucht, a spokesman for Wisconsin & Southern, said he's confident the state will approve the money for phase one.The company hopes to start replacing the ties in late spring.
  
  "We've already been talking with vendors about delivery of the ties," he said.
  
  Phase two funding is a different story.The company is asking for twice as much money for that part of the project, and the funding decision is more than a year and a half away.
  
  The company plans to start replacing the rail in spring 2009, even though the railroad funding for 2009-11 won't be decided until at least three months later.
  
  "That's a big gamble we take," Lucht said.
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  Wisconsin & Southern would replace 40,000 rail ties, upgrade 40 railroad crossings at public highways and lay several thousand tons of ballast, said Ken Lucht, spokesman for Wisconsin & Southern.
  
  The first phase would cost $6.1 million.The company is asking for $5 million from the state Department of Transportation.
  
  -- Phase two would start in spring 2009 if funding comes through.The company will replace the 80-pound, jointed rail between Milton and Madison with 115-pound, continuous rail, Lucht said.

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