St. Lawrence and Atlantic

[Convicted One]

mudchicken

The rates comment has about the same validity as the comments tying the Prince Plan to the ICC Valuation Act.  (like a big zero)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation_Act

[MMLDelete]

Earlier in this thread I mentioned the big paper mill in Westbrook ME. I drove by there today, by the little on-property yard. In times past there were always cars there, IIRC mostly covered hoppers and tanks. Today there was just a single tank car, period. I don't think the mill gets rail service anymore. I didn't notice any reporting marks on the tank car. I'm guessing it's an abandoned orphan, maybe being used now for some kind of static storage. Or it just hasnt been removed yet. I think the tracks are still intact enough to allow access to it, but not sure.

[DSchmitt]

Flintlock76

 

 

mudchicken

 

 

Flintlock76

From what of seen on map legends in the past that broken line probably indicates "track in place, but out of service."  

Yeah, you'd think they'd have a map legend explaining what's what.

 

 

 

 

marketing people or webmasters with common sense and and a grasp on practical reality?

 

 

 

 

 

Really!  What are they teaching kids in schools nowadays?  I learned about maps and how to read them in grade school!  We even had map drawing exercises in geography class!

Of course, that was back in the Pleistocene Era.  

 

Sometimes the person hired to draw the map has not taken a class.

[Dr Leonard]

It must not be that uncommon for a railroad to show an out-of-service line as part of their system. The map of the Keokuk Junction Railway, on the Pioneer Railcorp web site, still shows the line between Hamilton and Warsaw, Illinois which has been out of service for decades. The highway crossing south of Hamilton is blacktopped over, the tracks to Warsaw are hidden in the woods, and at Warsaw there are houses built over where the tracks would have been.

[BaltACD]

Dr Leonard

It must not be that uncommon for a railroad to show an out-of-service line as part of their system. The map of the Keokuk Junction Railway, on the Pioneer Railcorp web site, still shows the line between Hamilton and Warsaw, Illinois which has been out of service for decades. The highway crossing south of Hamilton is blacktopped over, the tracks to Warsaw are hidden in the woods, and at Warsaw there are houses built over where the tracks would have been.

Has the line been abandoned by either ICC or STB docket?

[mudchicken]

Embargoed yes, abandoned no.... ATSF sold the funky TP&W pig-tail to KJRY in 1986 and after the oddball Pioneer management got hold of it, nothing happened. As close as it ever got to abandoning was Feb 2003 when the scoundrels at A&K (under the guise of SF&L) tried to abandon it in AB448_2_x. STB forced A&K to sell it to KJRY.....and then it sat. (supposebly there flood damaged bridges in that idled stretch that can't justify the repair costs?)

(at least it has rail....several other places don't and still are not abandoned)

TP&W = Toledo Peoria & Warsaw