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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by nanaimo73</i> <br /><br />We have about 75,000 here in Nanaimo. <br /> <br />Do you know anything about Portland ? NS sold the line past there to RJ Corman, but why did they want to serve Portland ? Is there a large factory, or a power plant there ? <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I was reading in another forum, that NS recently re-tied that line and re configured the junction with the former PRR panhandle route at Redkey such that the straight thru switch configuration now veers west to Dunkirk on a stubb of the old PRR, to serve 100+ grain car trains from an elevator there, and the "switched" end is the track that continues on to Portland. <br /> <br />There is some industry in an industrial park on the southwest side of Portland, very near the line in question, but the large rail user in that immediate area would be the other large grain elevator, just across the state line in Fort Recovery, Ohio.
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