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So, if I read your post correctly, you disagree by saying essentially what I said? If Fortress hadn't decided to exit CM&Q then the corporate money would have been available, and my entire post would be invalidated, but then we wouldn't be having this conversation... But they did decide to exit,...

I would argue that. The oil traffic may have saved the railroad had it not killed it. But it would have been a short reprieve as that traffic all stopped in 2013/14 as Irving changed their oil buying habits and switched sources to something they ship in, rather than rail in. The property was only ab...

I was one who was skeptical of the future of the Moosehead in particular after Megantic. CM&Q had a number of assets at their disposal that neither predecessor did. Both Iron Road and MM&A lacked capital. Iron Roads was heavily leveraged to make the purchase, and nearly every asset on the pr...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:03 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

I would imagine at the very least CSX will put up the matching money for the Pine Tree Corridor grant Pan Am was recently awarded. That included some pretty serious amounts of CWR. I doubt Pan Am will pony up the matching funds before the sale closes.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:23 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

No, not back in daily service yet. Not much really, Irving did some contract tie work. Not sure how far they made it, maybe half way to Old Town from 'Keag, didn't do a heavy density job either. Fact of the matter is, the line is fine for 10mph operations as it was. The problems always come in the s...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Sat Jan 02, 2021 4:49 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

That is an old Lousiana Pacific OSB(?) plant. Old being operative word. Shuttered for a decade +/-. The switches on both legs of the wye have been pulled, I believe when they did the trackwork after Woodland Pulp bought the railroad from Maine Central/PAR.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:21 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

ARC Steel in Kingfield is taking cars at Dixfield now. They relocated off the end of the Madison branch in North Anson.

Irving gets logs for the Dixfield sawmill, I think they are taking those up to the Rumford Mill yard, but they might be unloading in Dixfield now.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:24 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

Nothing has really changed up there. Levels are still what they have been over the previous year or so. They've had a lot of teething issues with that mill. Might be up a little, they get a switch about 6 days/week.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:18 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

Realize, a driving force for any class 1 purchasing the property is the line to 'Keag. The grant money Pan Am was awarded would be a drop in the bucket of what I'd expect to see a CSX or NS dump into WTVL-KEAG in the first 24-36 months. That line has so much potential for it's access to SJ. The line...

Re: Pan Am Freight

 by KSmitty ¦  Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:57 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Pan Am Freight - Northern Maine ¦  Replies: 7 ¦  Views: 17301

Does PanAm still have an NMJ based road switcher? Pan Am has a crew based out of NMJ to operate NMWA. They also have a crew at Old Town which covers all switching east of NMJ, including Orrington dirty dirt, Bucksport storage, ties/chips to/from Keag and some of the Old Town Mill. Since Watco isn't...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:09 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

Cosakita18 wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:31 am Where in PI? and for what purpose? was just there last week and didn't see any sort of new construction at the industrial park or the disused downtown yard.
Dead River, getting a new track. I believe anyway.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by KSmitty ¦  Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:31 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529512

Why would DOD flatcars be hauling laminated lumber? It's not like you're going to balance the federal budget leasing out beat up old flat cars.

Been a lot of activity in the Loring/PI area. New siding going in in PI, newly secured area at Loring per friend in the area.

Masardis, Squa Pan, Scopan, Ashland, its all the same tiny dot on a map to me... but yes, Masardis is railroad Squa Pan. I thought they were running out of FK, not Mad, but I honestly don't know, may have misunderstood, maybe FK is where they are around daybreak? Don't have OD times, but I gathered ...

907/908 are 7 days a week now. running fairly consistently, schedule wise, with the westbound crossing the border late afternoon or evening. Eastbound out of BJ in the 14:00-16:00 range. 909/910 are running at least 6 days a week, may take Sundays off, but have been south out of Oakfield the last se...

Re: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU

 by KSmitty ¦  Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:42 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU ¦  Replies: 394 ¦  Views: 104692

Jay has actually been busier since the explosion, because so much pulp is coming in. A lot of stuff is/was moving Rumford-Jay-Rumford with ND supplying a lot of the pulp Pixelle is using. But SAPPI, other Pixelle mills, and other sources of market pulp are all being used to feed the paper machines. ...

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