New England Central Railroad (NECR)

The southbound freight struck an auto in South Royalton Wednesday morning Jan. 31. The 92-year-old woman was from Massachusetts, and had no known reason for being in South Royalton. The incident is still under investigation by Vermont State Police. www.vnews.com has what little inf there is.

Former GECX 7740 is out of the paint booth as 4068. 4063 made its first trip over the road today, trailing on 324/611.

4063 led 323 Monday night.

15 auto racks came down to St Albans today on CN M324. Bound for Davisville, RI, via Willimantic on the NECR.

About 40 or so racks on today's 324/611.

Is this new business or have they still been sending autos and other mixed freight through the Willimantic gateway recently?

I wonder if this picks up if there's any way to cut distance down by using Millers Falls, MA to Gardner. I know it's owned by the PAS venture but I wonder if they could extend P&W rights to East Deerfield or something to ease interchange.

Cars are indeed for Davisville via Willimantic. Chatter elsewhere indicates it's short term, like the last moves were a few years ago.

I would guess it's related to the derailment over in Valley Falls, NY blocking the PAS line.

I stand corrected, it's apparently not related to moving racks over PAS to Gardner.

Another 25 or so racks south this morning.

Does anyone know if the Gardner gateway is also getting racks from NS/PAS currently? Wondering if CN is making a push to takeover traffic or if this is additional on top of the NS/PAS business. Would be nice to see Quonset Point get a little busier.

Apparently not, according to the post above.
95x0 on today's 324; 61 loaded autoracks.

98 cars south today, apparently around half autoracks. Only 29 cars back north on 611.

How does P&W rout these cars to Quonset Pt from Willimantic?
Via Worcester or Groton?

These are apparently going via Worcester. None on today's M324 from Montreal.