NYSW possibly buying Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern?

I heard from a friend of a friend who works at the MA&N that NYSW has shown interest in buying the railroad. I couldn't be more thrilled because this could mean that the scenic can borrow 142 once again for free.
-Steve

Gunsnclapton wrote:I heard from a friend of a friend who works at the MA&N that NYSW has shown interest in buying the railroad. I couldn't be more thrilled because this could mean that the scenic can borrow 142 once again for free.
-Steve

The only problem is that the NYS&W no longer owns the 142. It was swapped for the engine shed in Butler earlier this year.

EDITED: Mohawk Adirondack and Northern, didn't reallize it at first.

But anyway, if it was remotely true what would be the benefit besides gaining all the customers? Do they have a connection at there northern most terminus?

Mohawk Adirondack and Northern

If anything... I would venture to say it would be the opposite! I would think the MA&N would be interested in buying what remains of the NYS&W from Utica south. That just my opinion.

Horse droppings on that rumour. Get the tin foil hats on as that is not in the reality picture folks.

IIRC, the way Walter set up the ownership on the former DL&W lines makes it extremely difficult to evict the NYS&W, and they have no plans to leave; while there also is no strategic advantage to them to expand northward either. I'm not up on if the railroad owns that line, or it's owned by the county and operated by the MA&N as so many shortlines do to beat property taxes.

I would have suspected if anything was likely it would be the MA&N to add some of the former DL&W, also, until the possibility of using the line for fracking sand and water trains came about; with that, and the application of grants to repair it, any rumor about a sale is going to be just that, a rumor.

I couldn't be more thrilled because this could mean that the scenic can borrow 142 once again for free."

Just how did you arrive at that conclusion?

Same way that I figure that next summer, The Catskill Mountain and the Adirondack Scenic will team up next year to offer through pullman service between Kingston and Tupper Lake.