Your assumption was that CMQ conspired (yes, what a dramatic word but from a legal sense it fits) against VRS in order to press CP-NS into better rates. However, you also have to understand that a lot of the mill traffic off Irving is ultimately destined for places on NS (PA areas, Southeast) and CP (Montreal, Toronto and Midwest points) so a routing could be rated competitively through the Conn River gateway but ultimately it may be that CP rebuffed their rates to be more competitive via their routing. But in any case, we simply DO NOT KNOW what exactly happened.
I can assure you what I heard from many railroad sources was they had planned to send a lot of traffic that way but just as things in life change fast, so does the railroad. Once again, sorry things didn't work out on your end but your antics towards this topic are at times contradictory and also suggest CMQ's plan is to ruin this stretch of railroad. Once again, I have not see this happen at all and as my posts suggest, CMQ is running down the line (with marginal traffic) several times a week AND they have invested into the line. So with the positive outlook on these real developments, why don't we wait and see if anything real ever comes to fruition.
In the future, I'll be sure to hold my tongue when I hear of potential freight opportunities on this line so as to not disrupt the largely negative atmosphere inherit in this thread.