Matters should be reported to FRA and STB to auction the railroad to a responsible operator and force this individual Hammond, out.

sp4439 Wrote:
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> The Milwaukee chair cars came from the California
> Western, and were scrapped in mid-2012. There was
> never any gold shipments on the YW, but there was
> a few shipments of copper concentrates out of a
> mine near Happy Camp.
>
> The last customer south of the Yreka depot
> (besides Suburban Propane) was a moulding plant
> off of Oberlin Road that would receive the
> occasional boxcar of lumber and ship out a loaded
> chip car, but that was sporadic at best, and ended
> in the 1990's. Suburban Propane would mainly only
> receive propane during the winter, with the last
> shipment happening in early 2011. At the most, the
> YW might recieve 8 or 10 propane shipments a year.
>
>
> After CORP closed the Siskiyou Line in 2008 the YW
> was managing to stay afloat via car storage, but
> Court Hammond couldn't leave well enough alone,
> and started scrapping some of the stored cars with
> out permission. Hammond also attempted to scam
> other shortlines into storing cars for him, when
> he got found out by the company that owned the
> cars, the contracts were cancelled and the cars
> removed from the property. If Court hadn't had a
> habit of biting the hand that feeds him, and paid
> his bills like he was supposed to, the YW would be
> in a different position today. Even with the CORP
> shutdown, if he was still in good graces with
> Timber Products, there would be freight moving on
> the YW right now, and the Blue Goose and the 19
> would still be making the daily trips from Yreka
> to Montague in the summer.