gokeefe wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:00 am
Gilbert B Norman wrote:So Mr. O'Keefe, it appears that rails East of Ayer are passenger only?
Not at all. What I was getting at was CP coming down from the north Northern Maine Junction - Waterville - Portland - Lowell Junction - Ayer.
You have a point, Mr. O'Keefe, and with my Fairfield Navy Cadet background, I should have known that even if the Compass Rose shows a heading of NE (45dg), you are still sailing "Down East" owing to the prevailing SW winds along the New England coast.
Then possibly I should have stated that the rail lines heading Eastward towards Boston from Ayer are substantially passenger, aside from the one freight Mr. Lightbulb has noted.
I can't help but note that at the Port of Boston's website, they have no mention whatever of rail transport. That to me means a shipper, if he wants rail, must first contract with a trucking company to handle the container from the Port to Ayer, then separately contract with either (for the moment) PA or CSX to further handle the shipment. I would think that if either road were making rates from the Port, and they contracting with a motor carrier to provide transfer service, that would have been noted at the site. But since rail in Boston seems only to mean passenger, can't be too surprised.
Finally, I can recall once during my Cadet days, we once caught a "Dry Easterly" and we sailed from Buzzards Bay all the way Westward "up the Sound" to Greenwich on a Broad Reach. So much for "Downeast" on that sailing
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