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Can't say for sure, as Certainteed has WB plants all over the country. In the East they have plants in TN, KY, WV, FL and NC to name a few.

It will be interesting to see what happens with that Wallboard business after the CSX takeover of Pan Am as I believe most of that traffic originates on their lines, which would make it a single-line local CSX move.

it certainly appears on the surface that CSX really wants to get this done.

Maybe those limited Deerfield rights are for the slurry train.

I think they all take the WLR. Kind of the long way around for Philly bound trains but must be preferable to going over Sand Patch with its' grades and curves.

Besides the NS traffic, the former D&H still sees Fuel oil, Ethanol and LPG going to and from the port of Albany, interchange traffic to the PAS at Mechanicville and not everything they interchange with CSX at Albany is coming over the CMQ, so there will still be significant CSX interchange traf...

CN still brings a significant amount of CBR into SJ for Irving, just not in unit train service. It probably wouldn't sit too well with the locals, but if down the road they had to, CSX could also get around the Ayer cap by running CBR trains into Allston, then over the Grand Junction to the Western ...

I believe that the agreement allows for two 9,000 ft trains in each direction right out of the gate, so if you use an average of 65' per car, that comes out to 277 cars a day in each direction, which they are nowhere near at this point and allows them plenty of room to grow. If they run one CBR Trai...

Exactly, people don't seem to understand that no matter how hard CP competes, all that CSX traffic they currently handle is going to go up in a puff of smoke in pretty short order. You will be seeing a lot less center beam, boxcar and tankcar traffic on the CP soon after the CSX acquisition, regardl...

In terms of CBR, post Lac Megantic, I'm not sure any of the shippers want to be moving trains over 5-10 MPH track, so once CSX upgrades the line, that issue is reolved. CSX should also be able to provide more competitive pricing now that it's a one line haul East of Chicago vs 2. BNSF originated CBR...

ST can likely access the grain mill via a PAS switch. This is not the first time grain trains have moved via Barbers.

With the shift to the Barbers interchange and the general demise of traffic on the Fitchburg, I don't think there's going to be enough density for CSX to run solid PAS trains from Buffalo or points further west any time soon. That was done from time to time in the past when Conrail or PC before them...

In reality, what advantage does Rotterdam have over Springfield in terms of interchanging manifest traffic? In both cases, there needs to be a back up move at the interchange, the mileage from Selkirk to Deerfield is close the same either way and via Springfield you don't have to deal with all that ...

I'm also guessing that CSX must have its' eye on CBR heading to Irving at SJ. With nothing really moving through Maine anymore, CBR has sort of become an afterthought on this board, though in reality, CN still moves substantial volumes in Manifest service over the top. Before the Lac Megantic traged...

There is no doubt whatsoever that CSX will flip anything that they can price as a local move, which is a pretty good chunk of business up in Irving territory. There is also no doubt that they will go hard after competitive business, such as the big Butane move to TX, or anything going to jointly ser...