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Re: SMART weight - Extensions to Wind
Author: We Can't Handle It
Date: 12-02-2021 - 09:55

I wasted to become a shipper. NWP failed to deliver (probably bent over by SMART) and Napa Valley Railroad didn't care to help... they only care about passengers...



circle jerk Wrote:
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> It's a dog-chasing-tail situation. Even without
> the well-known hate of freight by SMART,
> reasonable shippers want: 1) reliable service; 2)
> inexpensive service (to their own spur or a
> convenient transload, which in ancient days we
> called a team track); and 3) service when needed.
> NWP tried to provide #s 1 and 3; #2 was just not
> available with SMART in control of the actual
> railroad. With NWP gone and SMART in complete
> control, it won't take long for lack of #1 and 3
> to end any desire of local shippers/receivers to
> take carloads. After all, they adapted long ago to
> using trucks, and can easily go back to that if
> (when) rail freight gets to be too much of a drag
> (see what I did there?).

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