BostonUrbEx wrote:DutchRailnut wrote:read map, it shows joint venture , assuming panam.
Ding. 50% NS, 50% PAR. Although I'm not sure of the extent of Pan Am's ops south of the MA/CT line. I'd guess it's pretty bare bones.
PL-1 is the train that operates out of Plainville Yard to serve the on-line customers Berlin-Derby. EDPL (southbound)/PLED (northbound) is the train that goes East Deerfield-Plainville to restock Plainville and do the interchanges at Hartford Yard with CSOR and CNZR. The PL-1 equipment gets cycled once a week on the back of the East Deerfield train. Very limited power pool because Pan Am only stocks like 4 or 5 locomotives on its roster with cab signal units for reaching the Springfield Line. I'm sure if Norfolk Southern were supplying the power instead of PAR they could run it way more often, since their fleet out of Pennsylvania runs on more cab signal territory than any other freight railroad in the country including CSX.
I don't know how often PL-1 operates. Once a week for sure...probably twice. Less often the further west you go towards Waterbury the least often in Metro North territory. Most frequently-served cluster of businesses are in Berlin close to where the Highland Line diverges from the Springfield Line, and in Plainville on the Canal Industrial Track. Though there's been a couple recent new customers signed on, including one just announced in Plymouth. EDPL/PLED was up to twice a week...might even be 3 times a week now (hard to tell since it's running at night more these days to sidestep the Springfield Line upgrade construction crews). That one is definitely growing quite a bit, and travel time has been cut in half by the Conn River Line upgrades. The way they've been doing track work of late on the Highland Line in CT seems to suggest they see this area as a nice grower.