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BowdoinStation wrote:I guess Pan Am won't be stashing any cars on that track any more, like they did in the fall of 2015. At the time, they cleared out a bunch of stuff from Nashua Yard and brought it up to Concord and shoved a lot of cars onto the Northern well past the point of the abandoned track.The abandonment only takes effect at the Horseshoe Pond Ln. grade crossing, so they still have 2500 ft. of active tail track storage going from the switch with the White Mountain Branch and stretching underneath the US 202 overpass.
BowdoinStation wrote:I am very familiar with the geography there pal, gee thanks for the lesson.You said. . .
BowdoinStation wrote:I guess Pan Am won't be stashing any cars on that track any more.The observation that 2500 ft. of tail track space remains is a perfectly valid observation re: logistics of shoving cars out of the way in Concord. There is absolutely zero reason to get all slappy about it.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:The abandonment only takes effect at the Horseshoe Pond Ln. grade crossing, so they still have 2500 ft. of active tail track storage going from the switch with the White Mountain Branch and stretching underneath the US 202 overpass.Will the official end of track on the Northern be Horseshoe Pond Lane grade crossing? Wonder if they will install a bumper there?
CPF363 wrote:According to the hundredths-of-a-milepost readings cited in the abandonment, that it precisely the spot. Doubt they'd install a bumper unless they really do start shoving cars back there, and the line of cars gets long enough often enough to approach couple hundred feet of end-of-track. They aren't at a loss for storage on the NA-# locals with Manchester Yard still rusting away intact. It's not like NEGS interchange is a real hoppin' place. They just made their first move of 2017 a few days ago, carrying two whole tankers to 3M and one whole ballast hopper to Hobo.F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:The abandonment only takes effect at the Horseshoe Pond Ln. grade crossing, so they still have 2500 ft. of active tail track storage going from the switch with the White Mountain Branch and stretching underneath the US 202 overpass.Will the official end of track on the Northern be Horseshoe Pond Lane grade crossing? Wonder if they will install a bumper there?
newpylong wrote:No one operates over legally abandoned track. Are you sure it just wasnt out of service? Or owned by NH?The track in questioned was just abandoned on March 22nd. Anything before that was still active up to Penacook.
b&m 1566 wrote:Exactly my point.newpylong wrote:No one operates over legally abandoned track. Are you sure it just wasnt out of service? Or owned by NH?The track in questioned was just abandoned on March 22nd. Anything before that was still active up to Penacook.
newpylong wrote:No one operates over legally abandoned track. Are you sure it just wasnt out of service? Or owned by NH?What would happen if they did? It wouldn't make much sense, but suppose some outfit was desperate for temporary storage space after an abandonment.
BandA wrote:1. They aren't going to do that. There's a small trestle over Horseshoe Pond about 150 ft. after the grade crossing that makes it too hard for crews to get out and walk along the cars to set the parking brakes. This isn't like the Greenville Branch fizzing out into the woods after the last customer. The pond is a really lousy canning spot to begin with.newpylong wrote:No one operates over legally abandoned track. Are you sure it just wasnt out of service? Or owned by NH?What would happen if they did? It wouldn't make much sense, but suppose some outfit was desperate for temporary storage space after an abandonment.