gokeefe wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:42 am
A215 wrote:G&W is supposedly touring the property. Unsure of the other railroad and investment firm.
So Fortress (maybe), G&W and either NS or CN.
Messrs. A215 and O'Keefe, matters not if the boys and girls from G&W take a joyride around the Pan Am, so long as the STB holds to their competitive rail philosophy, they "ain't a gonna get it".
The STB Members hold five year terms having been appointed by the President. But Trump has already made appointments, including the Chairman, so if he wants to back away from the competitive rail philosophy he has had time to start that initiative. During a possible second term, he has more opportunity to shape that Board (again; fixed term, not "at his pleasure").
If G&W gets Pan Am, only the B&A represents competition - and they don't exactly hit ME and NH on their own rails. Sure with the CP-M back in SOO/CP (to my knowledge, all CP properties in the USA are SOO) hands, it is still a ramshackle property of FRA Class 2 and can't really be called competition at present. Even if SOO commits to a fix up enough to be Class 3, it is still handling its traffic to/from Canada.
Now so far as the developments reported by the Athol newspaper:
Election Year; people=passengers=votes.
Again I note; the people are along the B&A, and West of Worcester, Chessie "tolerates" the "one a day Amtrak", but extended "T" service would likely be met with "claws" and not "purrs".