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Cosakita18 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:54 pm I feel like if anyone had the ability to get the most out of the branch, it would be CP. In my opinion there is SOME untapped freight potential.I'm not sure what CP could do that Maine Coast, Safe Handling, Maine Eastern, and CMQ couldn't do. There just simply isn't much industry along the line, and that is no fault of any of the previous companies that operated it. It's the location.
gokeefe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:23 pm I'm not entirely sure it would cannibalize anything necessarily ... I would think most of the propane going to that area is running by truck from South Portland at the moment.If it's being trucked in from S Portland, then it's coming into S Portland by rail, no?
gokeefe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:23 pm I can't remember if there's any propane in Searsport that perhaps CP is already handling ... ??Well, there's that big Irving terminal at Mack Point - is that oil only? And elsewhere on the Searsport Branch there is a rail-served Dead River terminal right off the Route 202 crossing in Hampden, too.
Cowford wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:03 pm A new propane terminal on the Rockland branch would only serve to cannibalize traffic already being handled on SLR/CMQ/PAR. Ag/agg transload potential? Could you expand on that?From what I recall the facility was intended to be a distribution point for local propane deliveries in the midcoast area.
gokeefe wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:17 pmPAR and CP are competitors in this market and as is the case most of the time, PAR would likely be in a lesser financial position interchanging to another carrier than consolidating larger volumes through a truck transload, especially if the interchange also involves movement through an alternate transload and not direct to a customer. Therefore, from PAR's perspective it would simply cannibalize their position.Cowford wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:54 am If it's being trucked in from S Portland, then it's coming into S Portland by rail, no?Yes almost certainly. I was figuring maybe a little more line haul for Pan Am and then interchange to CP.