Look for more Irving /csx traffic moving off of cmq and onto par in the not so distant future, notably lumber. Rumor has it cmq rates too high and arrogant service issues around farnham. Have heard Vtr may be forced to cut back conn river line service to cmq account of abysmal vermont service from Cmq. All good news for PAR.
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Is POED/EDPO traffic mainly NS/PAS and will it be replaced completely by M427/426 once BE is up and running?
Is POED/EDPO traffic mainly NS/PAS (yes) and will it be replaced completely by M427/426 once BE is up and running (no). It remains to be seen how it will get to Maine, but 426/427 will remain the priority train no stops enroute except Ayer and even that may change.
Maybe an Ayer,Worcester, or Gardner to Portland ,ME pair.
Is the EDPO/POED done completely? South of Rigby all I’ve been seeing are locals and the M426/M427.
Sorry, I wasn’t completely sure given CSX has symbols for them (L074/L075). Just doing my best to learn the area traffic.
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Yes, this is true. I am not sure how often they have crews to run those. Other folks could fill in the blanks more.
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The as yet unanswered question is how does csx move these cars east of cpf 312.
Tacked on to a 426? Or as their own train to rigby?
Tacked on to a 426? Or as their own train to rigby?
Perhaps the pareto efficient solution that CSX seeks is for NS/BE to rubber wheel everything going to or from Ayer to Maine and New Hampshire.
As of now and the past 6 months or so M426 picks them up either in Ayer, Westford, or North Chelmsford, CSX LA-4 has shuttled cars back and forth in the past. Today B+E AY-4 did shuttling east and west of 312.
Since about last October, the L080 has been filling the void of the EDPO/POED, at least as far as a second major freight job west of Rigby Yard. It seems that may have changed within the last week as the L080 is listed as operating between Lawrence and Ayer now. Not sure if that means a different train will run in its place or if everything has gone back to solely the 426/427 for now.
L080 is now again a Lawrence-Ayer turn to shuttle NS cars. M426/M427 work places such as Lawrence, NC, Westford.