Jeff Moore Wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply and corrections, John. Your
> response does pose a couple follow up questions.
>
>
>" I made a rash assumption about
> the warehouse being for wine.

> 1. They will be warehousing wholesale equipment to grow pot .( I am not kidding)


> In response to what you said about "NWP never
> said it was not interested in operating north of


> Healdsburg", I'd refer you to the following Eureka
> Times-Standard article from 18 December 2017, the
> entire text of which was posted to this board on
> the 19th. The article includes the following
> quote:
>
> "After the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
> told the California Transportation Commission in
> June that it had no intention of operating a
> freight line north of Healdsburg, the authority
> voted in September to reaffirm its commitment to
> restore rail lines north of Willits."
>
> 2. Running trains .(The NWP has the exclusive freight rights) and financing the restoration of rail lines north of Healdsburg are not the same thing.
>
> I seem to remember the trash train ending mostly
> because of a slight cost difference between the
> local landfill and the Oregon one. Not to say
> there wasn't political stuff going on in the
> background, but that's what I remember in the

> media at the time.

> 3. The Hay rd. landfill in Vacaville had expanded years ago and the cost difference between rail hauling to Washington state and trucking to Vacaville is more than slight.

> Also, it should be noted California Northern did
> not leave the south end of the NWP by choice, they
> left because SP sold the line out from underneath
> them and the new owner elected to run the line
> themselves. All accounts seem to suggest CFNR was
> happy to not have that part of the operation
> anymore, as it accounted for the vast majority of
> their m-o-w budget.

> Mr. Parkison was quoted in the late nineties "The NWP will never be profitable without government assistance".

>