Re: WWR/Frontier
Author: John
Date: 07-19-2019 - 14:32
Good info.
So Nextrail only owns the Goose Lake Railway?
SP5103 Wrote:
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> Western Washington was always a partnership
> between the principles of Frontier Rail and
> Nexxtrail. Frontier bought the underlying track
> and shop at Western Jct from the City of Tacoma.
> It ended up that the Western Washington
> partnership was dissolved, and Frontier operates
> the line under WRL/Rainier Rail.
>
> About the same time, Frontier's Lake Railway was
> leaving Lakeview, Oregon and the Modoc line.
> Successor operator Goose Lake Railway is a
> partnership between Nexxtrail and one of the
> shippers in Lakeview.
>
> Regarding previous posts about Frontier's contract
> switching operations for Railex now UP Cold
> Connect - at the expiration of the contract UP
> awarded the bid to Harbor Rail Services instead.
> Frontier may have leased their engines to Harbor
> until their own were delivered. The former UPY
> 1299 at Wallula is now in Walla Walla, I believe
> the former UP 1284 from Delano went to Western
> Jct? Not sure what was in NY at the end of
> operations, if it was Frontier's it likely went to
> their CCET in Ohio.
>
> Disclosure - I worked at one time or another for
> many of the above companies.