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Re: That's all she wrote for the Feather River route?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 11-05-2009 - 13:08
Give me a break! Wrote:
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> The Feather River route is closing! The Feather
> River route is closing! The Feather River route
> is closing! Every few months, I hear it again.
> And again. And again. With as much talk as there
> has been about the topic in the FOAMER community,
> you would think that that there was something to
> it and we would have heard something from UP or
> BNSF about it. Guess what, there hasn't been
> SQUAT! I’ll believe it when I see an announcement
> about it from UP, until then, would everyone just
> SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALLREADY!?!?!? Enough is
> enough…. Where’s the proof for any of these
> rumors? Cuz that’s all they are, rumors!
Sam didn't say the line is closing, just that there'll be reduced traffic.
UP notified employees last month of its intentions, which are to reroute all intermodal traffic via Donner, with a gradual phase-in starting on or about November 7th. After that, UP intends to only regularly run westbound manifests (such as the MNPRV/MNPRVB) and bulk commdoities unit trains (coal, grain, etc.) via the Canyon Sub. So, that would be somewhere between 1 and 4 trains. There would be no regular eastbound UP trains. The Canyon would remain available for detour movements.
Portola will be greatly reduced, and possibly eventually eliminated, as a Home Terminal for pool crews. UP held "Town Meetings" about it recently. Crews for the westbound Canyon trains would be called off the board at Sparks.
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> The Feather River route is closing! The Feather
> River route is closing! The Feather River route
> is closing! Every few months, I hear it again.
> And again. And again. With as much talk as there
> has been about the topic in the FOAMER community,
> you would think that that there was something to
> it and we would have heard something from UP or
> BNSF about it. Guess what, there hasn't been
> SQUAT! I’ll believe it when I see an announcement
> about it from UP, until then, would everyone just
> SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALLREADY!?!?!? Enough is
> enough…. Where’s the proof for any of these
> rumors? Cuz that’s all they are, rumors!
Sam didn't say the line is closing, just that there'll be reduced traffic.
UP notified employees last month of its intentions, which are to reroute all intermodal traffic via Donner, with a gradual phase-in starting on or about November 7th. After that, UP intends to only regularly run westbound manifests (such as the MNPRV/MNPRVB) and bulk commdoities unit trains (coal, grain, etc.) via the Canyon Sub. So, that would be somewhere between 1 and 4 trains. There would be no regular eastbound UP trains. The Canyon would remain available for detour movements.
Portola will be greatly reduced, and possibly eventually eliminated, as a Home Terminal for pool crews. UP held "Town Meetings" about it recently. Crews for the westbound Canyon trains would be called off the board at Sparks.
