roberttosh wrote:Slightly off topic, but how is the Old Town mill doing and do they ship much rail? Ditto for Woodland? Thanks.
Old Town ships out pulp bound for, I assume, Expera's Wisconsin mills. 5-10 F plates/day seems to be a fair assessment.
Most of Woodland's product is bound for Europe and is trucked to Eastport for its transAtlantic journey. However they do steady inbound business with fiber, and some pulping chemicals. When the tissue machines come on line we may see more outbound rail moves, and I'd expect an increase in the inbound as well.
BostonUrbEx wrote:I was doing some research and found that the mill in Lincoln is still active (I think). Is there any talk of rail service for the Lincoln mill? I thought it was shut down, myself.
Lincoln in still in business, but are down to just their tissue line. The paper and pulp production ceased what must have been 2 years ago now. Explosion in one of the boilers. They run their tissue line with market pulp purchased from Woodland last I knew. They have not used rail since the explosion, before their only business was Calcium Chlorate or some such chemical that came in those 2 bay UNPX covered hoppers.
I've not heard any rumors of LP&T coming back to rail service.
newpylong wrote:Lincoln just spent $10m on upgrades. They aren't going anywhere.
Do you have a link to a report or story on that? I don't remember seeing that, and I'd like to get more information on it. I didn't think they were in position to do that, so its nice to see!