Pan Am Southern / Patriot Corridor Discussion

[RandallW]

Amazon now carries anyone's freight to anyone's destination, i.e., Amazon will carry container load and truck load freight between origins and destinations where neither is an Amazon fulfillment center.

[johnpbarlow]

I didn’t know that! Very interesting development!

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/amazon ... -logistics

[QB 52.32]

Certainly another indication of the warming competitive climate within New England's intermodal marketplace.

[CN9634]

Amazon now carries anyone's freight to anyone's destination, i.e., Amazon will carry container load and truck load freight between origins and destinations where neither is an Amazon fulfillment center.

Amazon will market its contianers on backhaul moves-- this heading into Ayer is likely a load of Amazon merch. This would make sense given the North Andover, MA RDC just opened. Also a single container a train indicates to me potential trial shipments... let's see how it stacks up.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... h-andover/

[eustis22]

Is the siding to that facility restored?

[NHV 669]

What siding, lol? There's nothing but a long since disconnected stub that ends well before the fence surrounding the delivery lanes coming into and out of the place...

[BlueFlag]

Railfans in Voorheesville report the new CSX signals are now in operation.

Separately, this report on the Albany Division sightings page:

A fellow railfan relayed an update on the NS line eta for service. As per csx signal workers, NS has some unexpected extensive work closer to Delanson that will take the remainder of the year.

Any confirmation out there? If true, what would this “unexpected extensive work” entail for a portion of the line already in use?

[F74265A]

Recent videos from VO suggest all the work is finished on the connector

No idea what issues ns might have to the west

[BlueFlag]

PAS submitted a filing to the STB to formalize PAS trackage rights over CSX/PAR for 1000 feet east of the end of PAS track at CPF-312:
Excerpt:

Because of the lack of space on the PAS line between the facility and CPF 312, PAS/B&E currently does not have the necessary headroom to reposition PAS/B&E locomotives serving the facility, resulting in inefficiency and congestion on the PAS network. The parties have identified long-term and temporary solutions for this issue. As a long-term fix, PAS has agreed to install a “cross-over” on the PAS line that will permit PAS/B&E to reposition
locomotives without operating off the PAS line.

Based on the schedule for installing the cross-over, the parties have agreed that the temporary trackage rights will expire on December 5, 2023.

https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... 307179.pdf

(Above post is edited.)

Facebook post with drone photos today shows crossover is installed at 312. Looks to be hand throws, no interlocking. No word yet if utilization has commenced.

[bostontrainguy]

I was wondering why CSX, who purchased Pan Am and owned 1/2 of PAS, would not want to own Ayer's Hill Yard so they would be in total control of the area. Why give the yard to PAS to control and operate? It would seem that they accepted this big gap in their railroad. Why not even use an independent contracted switching road to operate the yard for both roads?

I would think CSX had a lot of clout to structure things in a more favorable and sensible way and eliminate the conflicts that have materialized.