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Love the M&E...[8D][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdMMUNZnlY[/url]  Sawyer: You mean the DDWH created the AAT and all it's sister lines? Or just the owner? Remember that the DDWH is a tiny (less than 10 miles) one-locomotive short line created to operate an unwanted branch line. I don't think they could afford to just operate ONE branch line in SC, much less purchase and start up operations on 5 lines from a bankrupt company. Starting up a railroad from a bankrupt company takes a lot of cash. The track would almost definetely be in horrible shape at start up, as the predecessor road would've cut most or all track maintanance to stave off bankruptcy, and then you have to get locomotives, servicing facilities, crews, MOW employees, lease or buy maintanance equipment, and start to get the online industries to start shipping by rail again. For a one-loco shortline, coming up with the cash and the confidence to invest that much is near impossible. The DDWH is probably near bankruptcy itself; they're only interchanging a few cars a day with their only connection, the WRS and have a very limited industry base that can be easily taken by trucks. They're just barely hanging on to life like many small shortlines. They really shouldn't still be around at all. Look at the hoardes of New England shortlines (most the same size or larger than the DDWH) that went bankrupt and were abandoned.I was reading a book on New England shortlines, and the abandoned shortlines just went on and on... Springfield Terminal, Lamoile Valley, Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington, the Suncook Valley, the Maine Coast, the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (dissolved in 2008), the list goes on and on... What if they were to invest in a startup, then have their only loco have a mechanical failure or something? They wouldn't have any money left to have it fixed (and don't have the facilities to fix it themselves) and would go bankrupt.The only way I can see it happening is if the DDWH's owner is a huge tycoon and the DDWH is only part of his portfolio of properties. Then he might have enough money to try a startup. It's your railroad of course, I'm just trying to provide a reality check here...
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