CSX Power

[mick]

CSX

[CSX Conductor]

Is this anything to do with the derailment in Lyons over this weekend? Or is it simply to give them more time to strip the engines of parts? just kidding. I see that Guilford bound traffic is up on the B&A lately. Also there have been rumors, quite a while ago, of CSXT & Guilford running a van train from Portland to the B&A.

[wolfmom69]

CSX power has been showing up at Rigby for about 3 weeks now. Saturday, 3 SD-40s came in during the afternoon,PH-1s crew brought SEPO in. Power was "said" to be going out : around 5PM,on RURJ. Guilford does seem to be quite short of "working power",even more than usual. Be interesting if a van train ran into Rigby.as Waterville IM facility has been down for a month. Guilford did recently pave an area,with 4 new stub tracks in the old "car repair" part of Rigby,and it is being used as team tracks for unloading covereds into trucks;MIGHT be enough room there to handle some "pigs". But- "Guilford Dedicated Intermodal Train" is an oxy moron"; BAR,MEC,&B&M didnt have much luck either when they tried it,as Maine truckers work cheap,just so they can be self employed and "free". Bud

[johnpbarlow]

When NS coordinated intermodal traffic to Waterville was suspended a month or so ago, I thought it was because it was much quicker to haul trailers between Waterville and Ayer over the road rather than by train. Given Portland is ~ 2 hours from Ayer by highway and given it takes GRS 2 hours just to haul trains 30 miles from the CSX main at Worcester to the GRS main at Ayer, I'd be surprised if CSX thought such a service would be useful, unless this would free up significant intermodal capacity at Worcester and Beacon Park.

[CSX Conductor]

As I posted earlier, this was just a rumor, just like mostly everything else we hear.