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Re: Boston and Maine de Mexico

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:21 pm ¦  Forum: Boston & Maine (B&M) | Maine Central (MEC) ¦  Topic: Boston and Maine de Mexico ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 1099

Damn, I better my boys on that!!
Leaving revenue on the table!!

Re: CSX Track Upgrades & Infrastructure of Pan Am

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:55 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Track Upgrades & Infrastructure of Pan Am ¦  Replies: 831 ¦  Views: 151932

Nortons/St. Gobains still got sporadic service when I joined the RR in 2005. And I put cars in there in 2017 as well. Saint Gobain/Norton's gets their inbound raw materials now in 40' ocean containers via an imported source overseas somewhere. It is a bagged material, so no longer do they use cover...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:45 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

JohnPBarlow, Instead of trying to figure out how CSXT and CPRS would do an interchange at Selkirk, Saratoga Springs or Mechanicville, ask yourself "Why?" to get your answer. "Why would you bother with such an arrangement when there is no large volume of traffic being passed over?"...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:31 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

Here's text of what appears to be a letter from CSX to CSX/Pan Am customers that was posted on Trainorders.com -... Are CSX tariffs higher or lower than PAR's? Very little traffic moves on "public tariffs" anymore outside of grain and animal feed. Most Shippers have year long contracts th...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:17 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

Irving, who owns the NBSR prefers to do HAULAGE agreements so as to be a neutral carrier and cost factor in their various businesses. This way CN, CP and now CSX are competing on equal footing. Plus that is a lot of remote railroad between Bangor to Saint John. Something goes wrong and Jacksonville ...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Wed Apr 20, 2022 8:28 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

Bobby T is correct. ST and now by acquisition, CSX, will have HAULAGE rights into and out of Saint John. NBSR and ST currently settle on an agreed haulage fee by commodity and car type. I know there are some people on this forum who work for existing ST or Pan Am shippers and know their rate documen...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:37 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

Approved.
They actually made a decision a week early. Shocked they didn't take it down to the wire next week.

https://www.stb.gov/news-communications ... /pr-22-22/

To all those who doubted or didn't want it to to happen, you are "#1" in Old Pat's eyes.

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

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:40 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529502

The potato traffic out of Van Buren, ME is now done and over for the season. Last few cars loaded in mid March.
No more empties coming to Pan Am, and all the loads are now on CSX or further west on UP.

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:01 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

The grain trains going via Worcester was due to the pool of available crews are better at Ayer than at Rotterdam Junction for the time being. Once the sale is approved, this traffic will mandated to go back to being routed over the West End of the B&M via the Pan Am Southern/Berkshire & East...

Re: Georgia Kaolin Returns

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:10 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Georgia Kaolin Returns ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 2017

The 2 largest kaolin shippers to Maine from Georgia can only get north via NS. It was NS who priced themselves out of the business years ago and lost out to the Brazilian clay via Portland. So it will be interesting to see how CSX wants to handle clay going forward. If they protect the Portland impo...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:50 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

PAS lost a lot of customers due to poor unreliable service. Maybe Berkshire Eastern can get them back. Really.....name some customers PAS has "lost due to poor unreliable service." Not debating service isn't a problem, but nobody had closed because of the railroad. That's been a myth prop...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:59 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

CP likely withdrew their objections since it was going to create a situation where CSX could retaliate with objections to CP-KCS. Their merger carries far more implications and money than the Pan Am sale. Plus as others stated, CP literally interchanges less than 100 cars a week at Mechanicville/Moh...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:52 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

According to both the interchange map filed by Pan Am and the current CSOR web site maintained by GWI you are incorrect. The interchange map filed by Pan Am explicitly shows an interchange with CSOR in Hartford. The CSOR web site explicitly lists an interchange with PAS in Berlin. I suspect the for...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:04 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

I know this has been going on for some time, but for years I thought CSOR had an iron clad paper barrier that prevented them from interchanging with anyone but CSX or terminating short-lines like CNZR. How did that new agreement get put in place? Pan Am cannot and does not interchange with CSOR. Th...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by PBMcGinnis ¦  Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:29 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832633

This is where you ask CP if PAS is so valuable to you why don't you ship more over it or buy it? Their tonnage is paltry. All they are doing is arguing about someone's else's traffic. Spot on. CPRS needs to back off, it will just incite CSXT to retaliate and bog down the CP-KCS merger with conditio...

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