Nope, the power is still making it to Rigby. POSE was through Lawrence around 11:20 this morning with 2 CSX GE's, and SEPO was into Dover, NH about an hour ago with 2 CSX GE's and a Pan Am unit.
SEPO and opposite counterpart POSE move over track owned by the T (Barbers-Ayer) with perpetual freight movement rights provided to Guilford and/or PanAm Southern (Barbers-Ayer and slightly beyond to The Willows); and Guilford (Willows-Portland). In the overwhelming majority of instances CSX furnishes the locomotives that are, I believe, operated by employees of Guilford or one of Guilford’s several corporate subsidiaries. Guilford/PanAm Operations controls the track from Worcester-Portland, train crews and dispatching. CSX controls everything else from Marketing the train to obtaining the necessary freight cars and bills shippers exclusively regardless of direction.
Is this train movement an example of Trackage Rights or Haulage Rights? Since only one answer can be correct and accurate a supplementary question results. Occasionally, we learn of or view a photo of a Guilford/PanAm locomotive (owned or leased) on CSX track working off “horsepower hours.” Since POSE/SEPO is, essentially, a CSX train operating over former B&M owned rails from Barbers-Portland and those rails are now owned by different corporate or state organizations-and CSX SEPO/POSE is a run through movement, i.e. it performs no switching or car cuts along the route, how is it that Guilford/PanAm would owe CSX “horsepower hours?”
Viewed differently and from the perspective of a different carrier (P&W) operating over much of the same track (those coal and limestone trains P&W operates from someplace in Rhode Island to Bow NH via Barbers-Ayer-Lowell-Bow or, alternatively, the P&W coal trains operated over PAS destined for the Mt. Tom generating plant and reverse runs with MTs)-Guilford/PanAm power is never reported as working off “horsepower hours” on the P&W.
The subject of trackage or haulage rights and the consequent assignment of locomotives is not a difference lacking a distinction with CSX and P&W since Guilford/PanAm appears chronically short of necessary numbers of locomotives capable of achieving and maintaining those ludicrous low speeds for hours on end.