This is great news to hear that freight is actually being hauled and that new customers are requesting service and are being recruited.

My greatest fear has always been that local municipalities will "zone out" or refuse to approve new commercial and industrial installations that will use rail service and/or find ways to prevent existing facilities from building industrial rail spurs or connections to the railroad as has happened in so many places, such as North Concord in Contra Costa County. The City of Concord prevented the Sacramento Northern Railway from serving a large new industrial development area. When this happens, the railroad's traffic dries up and they abandon branch lines.

Cities in California these days seem to be so greedy for new sales tax revenue that they want only new RETAIL developments with the sales taxes that they bring. They don't seem to care about the jobs or the general ecomomic benefits that commercial and industrial (non-retail) developments would bring and they throw up many roadblocks to prevent them from locating. Well, that's enough speaking from my soap box for now.