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Re: Willits, Redwoods, Eureka......... and other fantasy's
Author: ron
Date: 09-14-2017 - 13:47
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Facts:
>
> 1) If the line is ever restored as far as Willits,
> it will have nothing whatsoever to do with
> reconnecting to the Skunk.
>
> 2) If the line could be restored to Willits it
> would require less than to billion or two to
> Eureka, but still a lot.
>
> 3) If the line were to be restored beyond
> Healdsburg, it would require a significant and
> profitable traffic base.
>
> 4) If this service was restored beyond Healdsburg
> the traffic base would have nothing to do with
> strip mining the 5% of old growth redwood, which
> is now mostly all in State and Federal parks, we
> ran out of Redwood for large scale commercial
> volumes once hauled out in hundred car NWP trains
> about 30 years ago, and it'll take a couple of
> hundred more years before the next growth is
> mature.
>
> 5) If this service could be restored beyond
> Healdsburg, it would probably require one of the
> quarry operations to provide enough traffic, to
> support even that investment, with all of the
> resultant irrational and most extreme ranting
> Nimby factions spouting about a ton of horse-crap
> (squared) about how this will likely destroy all
> of mankind, and at the very least, all of our
> wonderful furry and feathered friends.
>
> 6) If the line is ever restored to Eureka, hell
> would have frozen over, and the @#$%& will have
> taken up ice skating, since Eureka is a crappy
> port, with no traffic base, no domestic traffic
> base, and no prospects of any of that changing any
> time soon. I still think Eureka to Ferndale, or
> up the Bay to Arcata with museum/tourist
> operations are the only opportunities to preserve
> those segments.
>
> About those Facts
Not enough freight traffic to justify the huge cost to rebuild from Redwood Valley to Willits .Forget it.
Redwood Empire lumber mill at Asti could provide up to three hundred carloads a year . This might make it profitable to rebuild to Cloverdale . Other than repairing the river crossing at Healdsburg there are no huge costly repairs to rebuild to Cloverdale
Ukiah - Redwood Valley Has an even larger active lumber mill. Mendocino Forest Products.It could provide up to five hundred carloads a year.
This would be a huge investment with four tunnel needing some repair and one completely collapsed. Along with small slides and slip outs along the Russian River canyon
Even the NCRA has given up hope of ever rebuilding to Eureka. So get over it .
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> Facts:
>
> 1) If the line is ever restored as far as Willits,
> it will have nothing whatsoever to do with
> reconnecting to the Skunk.
>
> 2) If the line could be restored to Willits it
> would require less than to billion or two to
> Eureka, but still a lot.
>
> 3) If the line were to be restored beyond
> Healdsburg, it would require a significant and
> profitable traffic base.
>
> 4) If this service was restored beyond Healdsburg
> the traffic base would have nothing to do with
> strip mining the 5% of old growth redwood, which
> is now mostly all in State and Federal parks, we
> ran out of Redwood for large scale commercial
> volumes once hauled out in hundred car NWP trains
> about 30 years ago, and it'll take a couple of
> hundred more years before the next growth is
> mature.
>
> 5) If this service could be restored beyond
> Healdsburg, it would probably require one of the
> quarry operations to provide enough traffic, to
> support even that investment, with all of the
> resultant irrational and most extreme ranting
> Nimby factions spouting about a ton of horse-crap
> (squared) about how this will likely destroy all
> of mankind, and at the very least, all of our
> wonderful furry and feathered friends.
>
> 6) If the line is ever restored to Eureka, hell
> would have frozen over, and the @#$%& will have
> taken up ice skating, since Eureka is a crappy
> port, with no traffic base, no domestic traffic
> base, and no prospects of any of that changing any
> time soon. I still think Eureka to Ferndale, or
> up the Bay to Arcata with museum/tourist
> operations are the only opportunities to preserve
> those segments.
>
> About those Facts
Not enough freight traffic to justify the huge cost to rebuild from Redwood Valley to Willits .Forget it.
Redwood Empire lumber mill at Asti could provide up to three hundred carloads a year . This might make it profitable to rebuild to Cloverdale . Other than repairing the river crossing at Healdsburg there are no huge costly repairs to rebuild to Cloverdale
Ukiah - Redwood Valley Has an even larger active lumber mill. Mendocino Forest Products.It could provide up to five hundred carloads a year.
This would be a huge investment with four tunnel needing some repair and one completely collapsed. Along with small slides and slip outs along the Russian River canyon
Even the NCRA has given up hope of ever rebuilding to Eureka. So get over it .
