by airman00
For me, I'm not talking about building new sidings. I'm talking about EXSISTING out of service sidings with still-connected and operational switches. There are still buildings at alot of these oos sidings and a company does something there. Sometimes it could simply be a matter of clearing some brush off the tracks and your in business. I get that there are costs involved, but on some of these old lines the switches are old hand-thrown style switches. How hard could it be to maintain them?
I use the CSX northern branch as an example because they still use hand throw switches. Since the C777 already serves customers on the line, if you get a few more to come online again, I can't see how it would be that big of a deal. The problem is that CSX has allowed the northern branch to get in such bad shape, you'd need some track work done to handle any increase in business.
I use the CSX northern branch as an example because they still use hand throw switches. Since the C777 already serves customers on the line, if you get a few more to come online again, I can't see how it would be that big of a deal. The problem is that CSX has allowed the northern branch to get in such bad shape, you'd need some track work done to handle any increase in business.