Portland Waterfront Rail Ops (Yard 8, Intermodal, etc)

Wonder if those well cars will end up being used to bring the Hunt containers back down? Then they could leave the chassis up there for the 53 foot chassis pool.

No chance that the well car containers could be separate from the PS operation and are heading to Portland for transloading with Eimskip at the IMT?

It's possible but given the timing this appears to be related to JB Hunt.

I spotted the well cars on POWA yesterday. Should see them returning this weekend on WAAY I'd imagine with the JB Hunt containers in them.

5 of the well cars returned empty on last night's WAAY

Sounds like they are preparing to position more empty containers ... Odd .... one would imagine JB Hunt has plenty of deadhead moves coming into Maine but apparently "perhaps not" ...

The five wells returned were a three pack and two singles... supposedly AYPO left Ayer this morning with a five pack well car, so perhaps the wrong equipment was brought up.

The only difference I can see that making is the efficiency in axle count. Otherwise nothing else right?

The few 22Ks I've seen lately have had more MT slots than earlier. Could be for Ayer WBs and/or mebbe some D-1s getting pre-positioned...

gokeefe wrote:The only difference I can see that making is the efficiency in axle count. Otherwise nothing else right?

Keeps one of them from accidentally being misrouted or something, but also, they're slightly shorter, which is important for the capacity at Waterville, which can hold eighteen spines (I imagine that five pack wells are the same length).

BDN today has an article where a PS representative is recommending that PS build a new Fifty($50) Million dollar plant in Lincoln. This will be a huge boost to the region. Just hope the NIMBYS don't start yapping.

Here is the link to the Poland Springs story
https://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/12/ ... -rep-says/

fromway wrote:Just hope the NIMBYS don't start yapping.

Probably not a concern. Best line in the whole article was something along the lines of "the mill used to use xxxx millions of gallons a year" from the public water district and they would have no problem handling future demand from Poland Spring.

Lincoln has been badly beat down by the loss of jobs in that area. I think most people up there are going to do everything they can to make sure this happens.

Never underestimate the power of NIMBYs.

Sure, lets build a water bottling plant on the site of a soon-to-be Superfund site... no way that will ruin your product's brand reputation.

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