No train sunday, and no train today. I guess we'll have to call it 2 trips this week... I would imagine a repeat next week as well...
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Cmq is reportedly giving up on 5 day per week service officially starting Jan 1, (surprise), they will be shooting for 2 day a week service to newport to interchange with vtr. With possibly a third trip if traffic warrants, but as we have seen so far this is not likely. CMQ'S marketing of the Newport sub is very weak, as we now see the majority of traffic moving cp. As i had said over the last few years, The claims of large amounts of traffic rejuvenating the conn river by cmq were and still are premature and unfounded. The line has too many different companies, owning to many different segments. Local traffic that will not touch cmq will be increasing on the line. ( from the south) but that's a different topic... I personally hope to see cmq sell the Newport sub and let a real railroad try to run it. But I do not imagine they will at this point. Loosing lines make a nice tax write off at the end of the year...
I didn't' catch a departure but the two units being used on the Newport job arrived back at Farnham at Midnight from somewhere...
Hello,
If they did run yesterday, they didn't leave any cars in Newport (for either their customers or the WACR). I don't know if they received cars from the WACR yesterday, although nothing was in the yard to go north yesterday morning. The WACR went south this morning with a single empty covered hopper that they pulled from Poulin Grain.
Best,
Fritz
If they did run yesterday, they didn't leave any cars in Newport (for either their customers or the WACR). I don't know if they received cars from the WACR yesterday, although nothing was in the yard to go north yesterday morning. The WACR went south this morning with a single empty covered hopper that they pulled from Poulin Grain.
Best,
Fritz
It is possible they only went to Cowansville or Richford to serve local customers and not all the way to Newport due to lack of traffic.