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Google "Coastal Cement Boston". That's the Dragon terminal that was barge-served but apparently not any more. I guess it's on what's called the Falcon Terminal. Google maps shows the barge unloading.

JAJ

They used my pic without permission and yes, that's my thought, using the Millis branch for car storage. Unless there's a breakdown with Dragon's barge there's no economic reason to rail portland cement from Thomaston to Millis. Maybe fly ash will move this year, that material is more of a moving ta...

See below for coverage and documentation of a previous transformer load unloaded at Island Road in Millis:

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=237345

JAJ

That's a nice find, but the Millis line is not part of that 1982 document...BCLR took it over from Conrail around 1987. Not sure if there are any addendums or amendments indicating that the maintenance req's for it are the same as in the original lease.

JAJ

GP40MC1118 wrote:Understand three more ash loads (TILX cars) enroute...

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...because you're otherwise wasting car lease money on cube you can't even use. I agree that the car should match the service, but you don't lease a car by the cubic foot. I guess I meant the difference in lease rates between new 3281cf 286k cars and older, 263kgrl 2980s. If you're on a 263 railroa...

Are those new to CMQ ACF 4650 center flow hoppers destined for Dragon service? You only need about 3250cf to weigh out a 286kGRL car with 117 short tons of Portland cement. These 4650cf cars are way too big for cement. On a 263kgrl railroad you should just use even smaller 2800-3000cf cars to ship ...

Someone like Lafarge would also have to come online, but it is faster and more economical for them to receive their cement via barge, which I believe comes from Rockland, ME. LaFarge receives cement by barge from Ravena NY (or other east coast plants i.e. Baltimore). It also receives cement by truc...

Good thread. I just figured out that Elementia bought a 55% stake in the Giant Cement Holdings piece of Grupo Cementos Portland Valderrivas. So Thomaston is now an Elementia-flagged plant. See below, this news is only a couple of months old, hence the original website going away: http://www.concrete...

Good God... Here's how the roster is tracing today. 6 red barns active, 4 still put up in Derby. All but one CITX unit appears to be in storage as well. The 3057 may wear CMQ marks on the cab but it's still tracing as a CITX unit! EQUIPMENT EVENT L/E EVENT TRAIN DESTINATION REPORTING RR SCAC ETA PT...

Re CN9634's info, the "Salem [MA] Action Alert" thread mentioned increased cement traffic to Everett, MA, as possibly affecting the Somerville MA Pan Am yard. From the number of vehicles parked on the tracks around Dragon's terminal in Boston (satellite view), I'd have to guess that termi...

Actually I did some more digging (using CSXT trace) and I found the following moves that I believe used the WACR to reach CSXT rails from the CMQ (and MNR/NBSR beyond that): 3 boxcar loads of pulp from Woodland, ME (NBSR origin) to Elmpark, NJ (NYSW). Full routing was NBSR-CMQ-WACR-NECR-CSXT-NYSW. 1...

Nearly all wacr local traffic comes from necr, or necr via whitehall, much better rates and reliability. Cti cars are routed cn necr vtr. Interesting. So what cars are VRS waiting on at Farnham? The Newport shippers (which are CMQ customers)? I still don't see how NECR is upset at CMQ. They seem to...

Mr Joyce any info on destinations of said Twin River loads? Curious if they were central New England bound or further west, i.e. Mid Atlantic or Mid West. About the only New England destination for that Madawaska paper I've noticed consistently has been Ware, MA on the MassCentral (consignee Kanzak...

Are the boxes JM Huber loads? No, every single one visible in the CMQ video was loaded at Madawaska, per CSXT trace... JAJ Wow great news there...I hadn't realized that Twin Rivers was again using rail in Madawaska. Yes, I think they have for some time, perhaps ever since MMA exited that segment of...