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Re: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo LineChanges
How 'bout this? NYS&W on its own tracks plus trackage rights to Hornell,
plus WNY&P gets you close . . . but they need a western connection besides .
. NS? CSX? which runs to Meadville?
SGL
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Green" <davandli_@_empacc.net>
To: "Robert John Davis" <trains_@_robertjohndavis.com>; "Blue Moon Network
Administrator" <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>; "Erie Lackawanna Mail List"
<erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo
LineChanges
> If NS was foolish enough to sell the ex-EL Southern Tier someone would
scarf
> it up. Both Conrail and NS have kept the line on a starvation diet to
keep
> it out of the hands of a company that would become a competitor to either
> one (among other reasons). If I was NS I would hang onto the Southern
Tier.
> Personally, I hope they are arrogant enough (they are) to think they could
> sell it and weather such competition. The EL WILL rise again!
>
> - Dave Green, ELHS #1366
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert John Davis" <trains_@_robertjohndavis.com>
> To: "Blue Moon Network Administrator" <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>; "Erie
> Lackawanna Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:28 PM
> Subject: Is the Erie east of Bingo next? Re: (erielack) NS Buffalo
> LineChanges
>
>
> > On 7/10/02 2:05 PM, "Blue Moon Network Administrator"
> > <root_@_net.bluemoon.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > While bad for the PRR line this will have a good impact on the
Southern
> Tier
> > > Line.
> > >
> >
> > I suspect there is also going to be negative impact at Allentown. I
would
> > not be surprised if Allentown is closed within 2 years as a
classification
> > yard.
> >
> > Norfolk Southern is a north-south company, so getting the line to
> > Mickeyville under the horsey flag is a good thing, even if it is only
> > trackage rights. Wanna bet the horse is in Montreal by next year?
> >
> > So, if Keating Summit was too much of a headache and dollar drain, you
> gotta
> > think Gulf Summit is next, no?
> >
> > Is this the death knell for the Southern Tier east of Bingo? It's a big,
> bad
> > railroad in the middle of nowhere. With the passenger plan seemingly
> killed
> > by common sense and the NS now owning or having trackage rights to the
NJ
> > ports via Allentown, there's not much reason to keep Gulf Summit in
> > operation as a NS route.
> >
> > Add in the Cut-Off revival, the intermodal terminals at Taylor and
> > Bethlehem, and the fact that the entire route is cleared for stacks, and
I
> > think you have a pretty good argument for routing all traffic that might
> go
> > via Bingo down through Allentown. Not as much NJT interference, either.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rob Davis
> > trains_@_robertjohndavis.com
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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