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C2629 wrote:Back to the original theme of this thread, new traffic. I have heard that they now run multiple sections of 310 some days. Have there been any new trains added ? I spent eight hours on the line Friday and saw three trains, 310, 37T and 36T. Heard of nothing else.
lvrr325 wrote:From 1976 to 1998 Conrail operated both of those lines and still found some degree of traffic to run via this line.
SALSDP35 wrote:lvrr325 wrote:From 1976 to 1998 Conrail operated both of those lines and still found some degree of traffic to run via this line.
Yeah mostly at gunpoint after 1980. In 1981 they shut down the Meadville line and ran one train each way Buffalo-Croxton until the summer of 1982 when the state of New York took them to court and forced them to live up to the agreement that they had in place. 6 trains a day returned but the minute Conrail could, they reduced the number. Four state agreements, each with fewer trains kept Conrail on the Tier.
In 1992, Jim Hagen reversed the sale to CP (which was Binghamton-Buffalo only), did a mild upgrade and opened the Tier as an overflow route for three years while they opened up the clearance on the PRR for double stacks. Once this was completed (late summer 1995), almost everything was removed. Conrail was even in discussions on how to close the line when the CSX/NS takeover battle began in October of 1986. When CSX and NS assumed control of the company in 1997 through a trust, the old CR management departed and a care taker management was put in place. During that time, trains returned to the Tier (stacks and multi-levels as well as OIBU/BUOI returned), but Conrail was really no longer Conrail.
SALSDP35 wrote:CSX may single track the NYC, but they won't sell it. People are reading way to much into some of the company's comments.
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