by newpylong
ElectricTraction wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 12:38 pmI think you've been provided with ample information on what will change and won't with the sale.newpylong wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 5:21 amI'm not sure how they will handle it operationally but from a routing/billing/paperwork perspective it will have nothing to do with CSOR.I would think getting G&W service would be to the advantage of the shippers, even though they're not getting CSX. The lines have already blurred a bit between P&W and CSOR. Maybe they'd formally transfer the Plainville/Waterbury operation from B&E over to CSOR, it would make no sense to have two different arms of the same company overlapping each other like that, unless they share equipment, yard, etc in Hartford and just write up the paperwork differently for the different jobs. It would also connect B&E to P&W at Derby Junction, although I don't know if that connection is of much use.
The point of PAS is to try to preserve access to multiple Class Is, not provide single line access.
If CT trackage is sold or merged into another GWI railroad, that will only occur when GWI buys the entirety of PAS and chooses to do so. Until then they are just the operator and all PAS traffic is treated as such, a distinct carrier.
How they choose to physically crew, share power, etc is TBD but is exclusive of the routing.