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Re: Press Democrat sets provisional startup of NWP for March
Author: Hipshot
Date: 11-04-2009 - 04:28
The only public docukent I have been able to find is the "BUSINESS PLAN FOR THE NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Prepared For: California Transportation Commission," dated October 24, 2006. A link is included her for those tha want to read the whole thing. In Section V.A., pp 14-15, NWP Co. states:
"It is our experience that start-up of a new rail carrier is both slow and costly.
Because re-starting operations on the NWP Line will be occurring for the second time with
the third operator in a decade, we expect that volume and revenues will increase slowly until
NWP Co. gains credibility as an effective operator that will stay in business. For this
reason, we estimate that in the first year of operations, NWP Co. will achieve a total
carload volume of only about one-half of the 1,800 – 2,000 potential carloads that will be
realized in Year 2. That volume of 900 – 1,000 carloads will generate estimated revenue of
$579,000 in Year 1."
In year three they forecast the addition of Sonoma County municiple waste to increase carloads by "about 4,056 carloads generating revenue of $2,023,000." Those of you closer the the Sonoma County political scene are probably much better to judge the merits of that forecast.
[www.dot.ca.gov]
"It is our experience that start-up of a new rail carrier is both slow and costly.
Because re-starting operations on the NWP Line will be occurring for the second time with
the third operator in a decade, we expect that volume and revenues will increase slowly until
NWP Co. gains credibility as an effective operator that will stay in business. For this
reason, we estimate that in the first year of operations, NWP Co. will achieve a total
carload volume of only about one-half of the 1,800 – 2,000 potential carloads that will be
realized in Year 2. That volume of 900 – 1,000 carloads will generate estimated revenue of
$579,000 in Year 1."
In year three they forecast the addition of Sonoma County municiple waste to increase carloads by "about 4,056 carloads generating revenue of $2,023,000." Those of you closer the the Sonoma County political scene are probably much better to judge the merits of that forecast.
[www.dot.ca.gov]
