All sounds good to me. I thought there might be some additional trackage rights up the CSX River Line included, since NS has posted that they are looking for a better route into New England from the south, but don't see anything about that.
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What will be interesting is moves for 22K/23K to gain access to the B&A. Where is that going to be?Possibly from Delanson to just north of Voorheesville by the industrial park?
johnpbarlow wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:53 pm Sounds like Gardner yard might not be needed as G&W can run non-stop between E Deerfield and Worcester. That’s a significant time reduction. Wonder if NS gets to interchange autos with P&W at Worcester? My guess is the Voorheesville connection gets revived to allow 22K/23K to use the B&A rights. Which means there would be a double stack/auto move between Delanson and Mechanicville.Probably see a return of the dedicated job to/from Mechanicville vs shuttling cars to/from Delanson. Not really an operationally great spot to set off or pick up huge blocks. The interchange track is only 1300 feet long and no room to lengthen really. I doubt they are going to leave that type of traffic sitting there anyway too much risk of break in, happens all the time.
Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:13 amActually the Commonwealth owns everything that the T runs on, the only thing that my guess will change is the Western Route will be taken in-house for dispatching by Keolis and adding the second track in Andover.
I would think the REAL party in interest would be the "T" themselves. They would have concerns regarding how much additional freight traffic Chessie expects to handle over the FRA Class 4 trackage, albeit owned by the Boston and Maine, but which they pay to have maintained to handle passenger trains.
You'd think that NNEPRA would also have like concerns.
HarmonicRock wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:40 pm ... and the West End will continue to be a 10/25 mph railroad.I don't see any detrimental changes to the physical plant in store even moving the intermodal pair to the B&A. I still see it as a Class 2 railroad.
While the G&W was and is the most obvious choice for the PAS debacle, I can't imagine this bodes well for the line west of Deerfield