Re: Watco as middle man--how much.? ownership corrections
Author: Ross Hall
Date: 02-16-2007 - 13:10
Glad some others spoke up, getting tired of getting flamed about telling the truth. I hope the Port of Whitman is keeping an eye on "their" locomotives, I expect them to slither off to Kansas someday. I hated to mention that Watco removed the unloading ramp in Colfax just before a mini-unit train of Case/IH combines showed up from the former BNSF side of the pike. Customer had to stack up blocks of wood in order to unload the $300,000 machines (they now unload off the BNSF in Spokane and truck to Colfax). I also hated to mention that first class maintainance performed by parting out an active customers siding to fix the main line after a derailment. (No the siding hasn't been put back, trucks load where they used to load covered hoppers.) But they are good at getting top dollar for real estate.!!