No, as he said, the agreement has been there forever.
CP didn't really have much to stand on with it's PAS dispute.
CP didn't really have much to stand on with it's PAS dispute.
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newpylong wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:23 am You hit the nail on the head on your last paragraph.Absolutely! I saw that taking place and have early pictures of the mixed traffic, locomotives, and rolling stock with long freights multiple times during the day which all came to an end rather suddenly.
However, things weren't bad off the bat at all under GTI. The B&M was just coming off the massive 4R mainline reconstruction project and had a 40 mph East to West Freight Main. Besides new paint and symbols, the combined MEC and B&M were fairly harmonious until the lease (and subsequent strikes) to the ST was initiated. The workers at the time were hopeful that the cash infusion and combined system would be able to compete with Conrail in the Northeast and return both railroads to the forefront. Guilford used the dwindling carloads of its staple industries at the time as an opportunity to implement those draconian labor practices. The end result was the bottom fell out never to return. If industry was leaving New England, Guilford gave them a kick in the ass to get them out the door.
johnpbarlow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:00 am I did find this news release on the CSX corporate web site that announced CSX proposed use of the CP/D&H to route carload traffic between Albany and Montreal but I didn't think CSX ever pulled the trigger (if it was approved by STB) even though CP stopped running its own freights into NYC letting CSX haul that small amount of traffic:That's the agreement, it was even further back than I remembered. They were going to qualify Selkirk crews to Saratoga about 8 years ago. CSX changed their mind on that at the last minute, like a week before the jobs were supposed to go up for bid.
https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/ ... d-service/