Talk of potential new business for the Falls Road?

A source (non-RR) had mentioned this to me several months ago... if this actually happens, it would be a HUGE shot in the arm for the Falls Road - increasing traffic by over 6,000 cars a year of inbound raw material and outbound finished product. This would likely mean service on the line at least 5 days / week - and possibly more if they handle plant switching duties.

Why Holley? Very cheap municipal electric to start - easy rail access with their industrial park bordering the Falls Road - and some attractive tax breaks for new industry.

For now, let's keep this in the speculation file as talks between the potential business and the folks involved are still informal at this point.

From today's Rochester Democrat & Chronicle:

http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs ... /1002/NEWS

Holley studies ethanol plant

Meaghan M. McDermott
Staff writer

(March 6, 2005) — HOLLEY — Officials from the village of Holley,
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I've said too much already. In order to comply with the railroad.net moderator police I've quoted the bare minimum and leave it to you - the reader - to hope that the link above is good and will get you to the story.

What happened to all the posts regarding this subject?

This topic was discussed on NYS Railfan back on Mar 24, 2005.
Today that is back on page 4.

so if this happends i wonder if the falls road will be laying more track? or maybe installing a detector somewhere along the line?

brockportman wrote:so if this happends i wonder if the falls road will be laying more track? or maybe installing a detector somewhere along the line?

Doubtful. If any new trackage comes of this - it'll be an industrial spur and a few sidings onto the customer's property. The line doesn't have the track speed or the traffic to warrant a detector.

What was this actually all about? Link is dead, hmmm, maybe because its from 2 years ago. Ha!

Holley Ethanol plant? Or something else? Whatever happened to this?

There was a lot of NIMBY protest because of the chemical plant fiasco (Diaz Chemical spill) so the plant idea moved to Medina. Holley has low cost electricity because they own their own municipal system and can buy cheap making Holley the preferred site. The site in Medina is right on the fringe for low cost power from Niagara Falls and became the backup site.

Ahhh.. Okay. Thanks.

What are we digging up years-old threads for? The current conversation is here:

http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27976

-otto-