Agreed.
One of my favorite articles was the TRAINS regarding the Tennesse Pass line some years back.
IMHO, it seemed like a smart move on UP's part to not part with the unused portion of it, even though the company would have to continue payint the property taxes on it.
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Fair enough. I've read the same periodicals as you for the last 35 years. Some people did claim "hasty" in these articles but their claims never struck me as adequately supported.
S. Hadid
Wow. Slow down on hurling the bricks. Relax.....
I didn't get the idea. I've read articles in Railway Age, Metro, and TRAINS magazines that discussed the details of decisions leading to various rail line abandoments, sales, leases, rebuilding, track class downgrading, track class upgrading,etc.
AntonioFP45 wrote:Wow! Wasn't that a former Union Pacific line?Seems more and more that we're reading articles that indicate that a number of rail line abandonments that occured during the 80s and early 90s may have been hasty decisions indeed with a lack of long term thinking. (wait a minute, that sounds like CSX!)The old saying: Once you lose it....you don't get it back! ( Unless you're willing to fork over millions of dollars
Wow! Wasn't that a former Union Pacific line?
Seems more and more that we're reading articles that indicate that a number of rail line abandonments that occured during the 80s and early 90s may have been hasty decisions indeed with a lack of long term thinking. (wait a minute, that sounds like CSX!)
The old saying: Once you lose it....you don't get it back! ( Unless you're willing to fork over millions of dollars
Former Rio Grande.
I don't know where you are getting this idea that abandonments at this time or any other time were hasty (except from some of the opinions on this forum?), but regardless how one defines hasty this one is nothing like that. The Marysville Branch was badly damaged by washouts and mudslides contemporaneous with the Thistle Mudslide in 1983. The state of Utah and the counties decided they didn't want to cough up any cash to fix it, or buy it and railbank it. The traffic on the line then and in the forseeable future wouldn't pay to fix the damage. The railroad didn't think it should be a charity. The abandonment petition was approved by the ICC. I suppose you could blame the public and its leaders, but we're the public and we elect our leaders freely. So ... we're short-sighted and foolish.
Actually my comment is not exactly fair. The line was severed from the DRGW main by the landslide that buried Thistle UT. Still, I would prefer a train or two a day to 300 trucks.
dd
Unfortunately the Marysville Branch is now a rail trail.
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CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) -- Panguitch residents are worried about a proposed coal mine that could bring big trucks rumbling through their little town up to 300 times a day.
The Coal Hollow Project near Alton could bring 160 jobs to the area and produce about two million tons of coal annually.
But getting the coal to market means bringing 42-ton trucks through Panguitch every 4.8 minutes, 312 days a year.
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