Don't know where else to put this: there's a boxcar hanging at Boston Paperboard just off of the Yard 10 Lead. LW 9180.
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newpylong wrote:Hearing that next years big track project is to get the Brook and the Lowell branch back to 25.Which Class I is cracking that whip to get their Portland-bound waybill the hell out of town faster? The SEPO one, or the everything-else one?
CN9634 wrote:Believe it or not, this is Pan Am's attempt to drum up more business, but not new business rather than win back old business. More specifically -- Paper traffic. Their plan is to increase rail car velocity to bring back lost paper business to trucks. Stay tuned.Perhaps with track improvement to 25mph on the Stony Brook there will be less train parking at Graniteville and Lowell?
johnpbarlow wrote:I wouldn't be so sure. They usually end up there because they'd have to wait for a hole in the MBTA schedules and anything else that might be going on in addition to that.CN9634 wrote:Believe it or not, this is Pan Am's attempt to drum up more business, but not new business rather than win back old business. More specifically -- Paper traffic. Their plan is to increase rail car velocity to bring back lost paper business to trucks. Stay tuned.Perhaps with track improvement to 25mph on the Stony Brook there will be less train parking at Graniteville and Lowell?