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Did MC&SA come back?

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Did MC&SA come back?
Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, July 2, 2006 5:45 PM
Texans, shortline freaks, or Nanaimo, please feel free to help out here...

I thought the Moscow, Camden & San Augustine railroad disappeared decades ago, having been abandoned (there is a possiblity I was confusing them with the Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific). Their 50-foot box cars (built in the 1970s both by FMC and by CNCF in Mexico) had been dispersed to other shortlines in the General Electric Rail Services Corporation fold.

Yet yesterday, in my trip to Eola, I saw a pair of newer large box cars recently relettered MCSA. These are former BNSF box cars; there could be up to 175 of them in series 728225-728399.

Did the railroad come back from the dead? Is it a new line d/b/a MC&SA (don't laugh--I know of at least two other occasions where this has happened!)? Or was I completely wrong about its having been abandoned?

Carl

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Sunday, July 2, 2006 6:11 PM
I can't recall hearing of them having any trouble and shutting down. You must be thinking of another line down there, like RS&P, although they too are still around, in a very limited manor.

http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/mcsa.html
Dale

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