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Carriers charge based on mileage, but also on car origination/termination fees, car hire fees, etc. If you load it in a Pan Am car the railroad gets a cut. They are the originating carrier they get a cut. Then they have their rate for the mileage. So yeah, hauling a few miles might reduce your rate,...

If you're talking about the Port of Portland, it doesn't fit into the plan at all. Eimskip is the only line to call on the port. Thats well and good if you want to send things to northern Europe. But if you're a Chinese based company, looking to send pulp home to mills in mainland China, putting you...

1) Montreal, hundreds of miles up the St. Lawrence.
2) Albany, 150 miles up the Hudson, and heavily restricted on shipping size up the river.

gokeefe wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:49 pm For those of us not familiar with the situation what are the two CP ports inland you're referred to?

Yeah. Paper barrier. Csx had a lease on the yard.

The line is cleared for doublestacks from Montreal to Saint John.

Full train, with PAR 2 leading. They went west today from Rigby today. Had an eventful trip down from Waterville yesterday. They clipped a car at Main Street in Monmouth. They spent about 2 hours stopped downtown. Railroad PD, a couple company F150's and several maintainers vehicles from both track ...

And you're missing the point entirely if you think any CP interest in Searsport is about containers and intermodal. Searsport never has been, is not now, and never will be a large intermodal port with thousands of TEU's coming and going by ship and by rail each week. Panamax ships can have a draft a...

Its a Pan Am job. Based out of Deerfield.

Coal trains have historically run over D3, either via NS at Mohawk or via CSX at Rotterdam. The routing for these is CSX via Barbers.

The only coal that has traditionally moved over the Worcester main is coal sourced from the port of Providence and brought up to Worcester by the P&W.

The mill is still ramping up. The last NM-1 run to Old Town took a whopping 3 cars up, and it's not a daily trip by any means. Supposed to be doing about 50 loads/week after their "stage 1 ramp up." Then may go up again if ND puts more money into the facility to expand production.

As far as I know no Pan Am crew goes to the Keag anymore. Which is exactly what I said... The job is not daily so no crew is regularly reporting up there. They may report to 'Keag, but its not a predictable practice. They should be making another trip east soon GMTX 205 is back at Mattawamkeag and ...

For the record, they aren't even running the occasional extra up to Perma Treat this time. They have GMTX 205 sub-leased from EMRY and taxi a crew (NM-1?) up to switch. They send everything up CMQ and Irving drops the spent tie cars and chocolate chip gons at Keag. They did run down and back up once...

It's mothballed and afaik none of the work that was reportedly to be done had been done.

I was thinking along the lines of how the "interchange" is going to take place, and how PORU/RUPO are going to share the yard with WATCO. SAPPI has some pretty strong rules regarding ST operating on their property. Double derail, so ST and mill guys are always seperated by at least 1 derai...

Qualifying them wouldn't seem a hard problem. 4 or maybe 5 of the 7 hires have already had NORAC training as they are former employees of the outgoing mill switching outfit...