Cowford wrote:gokeefe wrote:...On a similar note and since PAR is apparently in "go get 'em" mode there could be additional traffic from moving intermodal containers from Auburn/Danville Junction to Freeport (especially since the tracks have been rebuilt). Perhaps SLR could be interested in interchanging cars at Yarmouth Junction...
What do you mean, George? Are you suggesting interchanging intermodal at Yarmouth Jct for delivery to a Freeport intermodal terminal?
Currently L.L. Bean receives intermodal containers at Auburn and trucks them (I believe using their own personnel and equipment) to Freeport. Both the Order Fulfillment Center (OFC) on Desert Road and the Casco Receiving Center (CRC) on Main Street are within a stone's throw (or a little more) of the railhead.
Since PAR seems to have such a strong desire for incremental traffic
and since the track through Freeport has been rebuilt (to include CTC signals) the line would seem to be a candidate (in the new way of looking at things) for intermodal container traffic to L.L. Bean's facilities. I know that under practically any circumstance there is no way that they should be trying to beat a truck short haul from Auburn to Freeport, however if the interchange were to take place at Yarmouth Junction the job could basically be run as a local using (for example) PO-1/2/3/4/5.
I can personally vouch for the fact that between the OFC and the CRC L.L. Bean is receiving
at least 10-20 containers
a day. Currrently all of these are trucked individually from Auburn. If SLR ran the cuts of intermodal to Yarmouth Junction, handed them off to PAR which dropped them somewhere in Freeport for L.L. Bean (either at one facility, both or a special intermodal terminal), there is some small potential business there for PAR, perhaps in switching fees more than anything else.