by RMB357
My theory with NS is that they want their core routes, similar to the Conrail “X”, and that’s why they probably didn’t make a play for the Pan Am. If Wick Moorman was still running NS I believe they would have already done this and there never would have been an announcement of a sale. Nor would they have scaled back Bellevue Yard. There was once a plan at NS prior to the Conrail takeover to run 20-25 trains a day on the Southern Tier Line until they realized they didn’t need or have to because of the Pittsburgh Line. The Patriot Corridor was a great idea, and I always felt the Port of Boston should of, could of been great potential for this traffic had it been developed as once planned. CN just seems like the logical answer to pumping serious traffic over it. Imagine the tracks brought up to 60mph for intermodal and one day Hoosac Tunnel cleared for double stacks.