F-line to Dudley via Park wrote: the Madison customer is only a couple miles from North Conway, and NHN would have to runaround at NC when serving this customer.
History shows us through ETT's that Madison had a 34 car passing track. If the branch were to be reconstituted, no doubt the great thinkers have already seen the benefit of restoring the siding. Trundling along the seven odd miles to Conway just to run around your train isn't cost effective, even a blind man can see that. Running up the hill to North Conway, yet another five miles, making a round trip of twenty four miles just to get around your train, is just plain absurd.