by Highball
PanAm Railways announces new direct intermodal service between Port Saint John and the Boston marketplace. http://ow.ly/5AgF30f6lS4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Rockingham Racer wrote:Good news. Hope it works out. D1 needs some work to speed things up, though, correct?Well, Waterville-Rigby is pretty much 25. Will be by the time snow flies. Irving running a tie job from 185 eastward.
pnolette wrote:Hopefully they run it as a dedicated train.Not tack it on the freights...Plenty of room on WAMA/MAWA, and those trains actually do a pretty good job holding their schedule. I'm wondering if this will be the catalyst that brings WAAY/AYWA back. Lump the IM from SJ onto the water and haul it all...Should work pretty well.
KSmitty wrote: Plenty of room on WAMA/MAWA, and those trains actually do a pretty good job holding their schedule. I'm wondering if this will be the catalyst that brings WAAY/AYWA back. Lump the IM from SJ onto the water and haul it all...Should work pretty well.If IM volumes from St. John are reasonable, I think that segregating IM traffic bound for D1 and points beyond would be vital.
Highball wrote:Perhaps the time is " ripe " for Pan Am to apply for T.I.G.E.R ( Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ) Funding for the Keag to Waterville section. Apparently, they did not apply for one last year .... as Maine Northern RR, EMRY and CMQ I believe, have each taken advantage of the TIGER program in recent years.
The deadline to submit an application for the FY 2017 TIGER grant program is Monday, October 16.