No time for yawning Wrote:
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> Yaaaaaaawwwn Wrote:
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> > Planning Department Wrote:
> >
> > > Actually the dinner train was scheduled to
> run
> > > this fall, but permitting issues have delayed
> > the
> > > startup for the bridge repairs.
> >
> >
> > There's always some BS reason or excuse why the
> > SCMB can't get it's act together. The only
> way
> > any part of the branch will be viable is if the
> > cement plant re-opens. Expect trains to
> Willits
> > or commuters to Monterrey before that happens.
> >
> > Until then, the SCMB is a half-assed switching
> > operator in Pajaro with less miles of
> servicable
> > track and less customers than any other
> railroad
> > in the state.
>
>
> List of BS reasons the SCMB cant get their act
> together:
> Bridge condition at La Selva prohibits operating
> north of there
> No rail access north of La Selva (milepost 9)
> No Tourist draw south of La Selva
> No freight just farms between milepost 9 and
> milepost 3
> Rail line not owned by SCMB so little reason
> exists to invest money in something they dont own
>
>
> Freight Rail
> SCMB services (5) five, 5, thats 1 2 3 4 and 5. I
> II III IV AND V customers in watsonville and will
> serve one more once the line opens all the way to
> santa cruz. I dont know about you but my
> calculator reads this 1+1+1+1+1+1=6 should I spell
> that? one plus one plus one plus one plus one plus
> one equals six.
>
> Thats more customers served than by the quincy
> railroad, california western, north western
> pacific, san francisco bay railroad, west isle
> line, yreka western, napa valley railroad, west
> oakland pacific railroad, mccloud railway, santa
> cruz big trees and pacific, and probably the trona
> Railroad or whatever they call themselves these
> days.
>
> impressive carload numbers? nope and its not a
> high-traffic line and it never will be.
>
>
> Roger T.


More fetching! Cal Western, SCBT&P, and Napa Valley are tourist railroads only, claiming to be nothing else. The McCloud and Yreka Western are dead. The NWP has 7 customers, 2 more than SCMB and operates on 62 miles of mainline track, with proper motive power for the job, btw. Trona runs over a sizable amount of track with long and profitable trains with 4 to 5 6 axle units. Their carload count exceeds all of the railroads here combined. Unless the Hash seed oil business dried up for the Oakland Terminal and they no longer transload the business that was being spotted on Wood ST after they removed the switch, Then maybe WOPR falls below the SCMP paltry threshhold.

Only the lonely West Isle line has as many or less miles of track and less customer carloads.
But they look and act like a real railroad.

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