Re: NCRA press release
Author: WAF
Date: 07-01-2009 - 19:08
Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> Man does time run together anymore, but I think it
> was 1999, at any rate it was about the time
> that the A&MR was put back into service. I went
> with the Simpson guys to the Logging Show in
> Portland and we stopped at Weyerhauser Cottage
> Grove to look over what was then the fastest dry
> side stacking hoist in the world. Their comment
> was that it looked like they were going have
> access to 73' bulkheads and could I build a faster
> hoist. We built the faster hoist and for a while
> they were supporting the railroad pretty well, at
> least until the weather intervened. Simpson had
> some concerns, the bill out on a bulkhead load to
> say Indiana was about $5400 but there were
> assurances that would come down as traffic
> increased. For a while it looked like things
> might actually work, especially considering that
> ES was handling the billing and paying for the
> line haul rather than taking what's given which
> will be the current situation.
ES out of the picture by 1989, so it can't be 1999