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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Washington turned down the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad's request for a loan for the biggest U.S. rail expansion in decades. Will Wall Street be kinder?
DM&E chief Kevin Schieffer says the railroad needed investors for the $6 billion project even before the Federal Railroad Administration turned down its request for a $2.3 billion loan last week. Now it just needs more. He said it has hired Citigroup and Merrill Lynch to advise it.
"I've been awfully busy since Monday," Schieffer said. He declined to talk in detail about the railroad's prospects for finding new investors.
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