https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQ5ARQ3PTY
CN Business Train Excursion provided for client Ashley Furniture....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6U7ezKU0pQ
Track for the Ashley Shipper Special looked like a lot of rock & roll and not more than class 3. Any knowledge of its class?
Electroliner 1935 Track for the Ashley Shipper Special looked like a lot of rock & roll and not more than class 3. Any knowledge of its class?
It is the former C&NW Winona, MN branch that used to cross the Mississippi River and head into Rochester, MN. It now terminates at the BNSF with several interchange tracks on the Eastern side of the Mississippi River. Surprised it is still in business and not torn up yet as looking on GOOGLE MAPS does not look like a lot of online traffic, except for aggregates and what looks like Frac Sand Hoppers. Oh and there is a short piece of a double stack container train parked on a siding. What it is doing in the middle of nowhere on this line is beyond my ability to guess.
I have no idea as to the track class.
I think this is a different ROW. Former Green Bay and Western, now CN.
Ashley Furniture in Arcadia has shipped container trains of furniture from their plant. At one point, other than Milwaukee, it was the only other intermodal loading/unloading point in Wisconsin for CN. Lots of frac sand now loaded on this line, too. Too bad GB&W couldn't have held on til these traffic sources developed.
Ashley is interesting in that they adopted the idea that Kneiling wrote about. They have plant-to-store delivery trucks that switch boxes at some of their furniture stores, leaving the delivered box on storage rack legs for unloading when store staff is able, and returning to the plant with the empty box that was previously delivered. No extra cost of having trailer wheels sitting idle.
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