Re: NCRA Asserts Its Right to Ignore State Law??????
Author: mook
Date: 04-18-2015 - 13:11
When your shipping volume increases from 1 truck a week to 6-10 a day (alias a car or 2), you might be a worthwhile rail customer for a short line. A *very* short line, that doesn't have to maintain track through the Eel River Canyon, and can get it to interchange or destination in 1 day or so. If all the shipments are going from one origin to one destination. For shipments that need to go to many destinations - trucks can do drop shipments all over, with next-day at worst service to the Bay Area, but rail can't. Somehow, I doubt that pot production, artisan goat cheese, and hand fudge packing will achieve the volumes and shipping patterns needed to support 50-car trains 2-3 times a day, which is probably the minimum needed to generate the ordinary (not storm damage) maintenance and operating funds for a restored (by other funds) NWP.