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Thanks 690. Given that this appears to be a long term issue with the bridge being out, I wonder if CMQ will need to hire additional crews or adjust the timing of Trains 1 and 2 so as the two round trips/day can be accommodated with existing crews.

Curious if a CMQ crew or a pilot is required for the detoured SLR trains over CMQ territory? How does SLR compensate CMQ, per car?

gpp111 wrote:Only the most efficient mills survive.

NHV 669 wrote:Supposedly starting tomorrow, WACR will run one train, one direction each day. NPWJ (mon), WJNP (tues), etc.

KSmitty wrote: AIM currently working on East Mill.

To play devils advocate here....why not build two large warehouses on either end and stuff the water in 263K boxcars and use dedicated water trains instead of handling a container multiple times? I understand the Hollis plant loads make sense in a container as its drayed to Waterville first, but if ...

Are they still loading in Portland?

Trash is still going to SEMASS for the time being as earlier posted and C&D is being sent to a lined / permitted landfill out of state. Mass DEP banned landfilling of that waste stream long ago. The Bourne landfill was originally built as a lined landfill specifically for C&D waste, but the...

I stopped in Taunton yesterday to see if CSX derailment was visible (no luck) Cotley Jct is a tough place to get into. Looks like the lead unit split the switch. Not too earth shattering, but it held up all freight east of there. Have they stopped loading the Mass DOT cars at Danforth St? I've seen...

gokeefe wrote:Do you have any idea who the primary shipper on the Dover-Foxcroft Branch might have been? I remain amazed by the 2500 car/year figure.

drcrf93 wrote:CMQ 2006 is currently sitting on the interchange in Brunswick with four weeks worth of cars waiting to go east. PAR delivered it last Friday 12/1 per a friend.

Taunton Scrap is a subsidiary of Spiegel Scrap in Brockton. They opened in the former RI Knitting building at 20 Cushman St in Taunton recently adjacent to the salt yard. In talks with an employee at the Brockton operation months ago, the plan was to ship domestic bound scrap from Taunton by rail an...

Now that Taunton Scrap is open on the Dean St branch, any plans for using rail? I know the location was sought for its proximity to rail when bought by Speigel.

Doesn't this already happen? They transfer containers onto different steamship lines at Halifax now to reach distant ports . Is this a marketing/billing thing?

Searsport Branch has been quite brisk at times this year. Saturday's "down" train had 31 cars, which nearly 50% was GAC(chemical loads). The GAC expansion has been a nice boost for the line for sure. Opportunities are getting back auto and intermodal? Auto's probably aren't coming back an...