Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> Howard, makes no sense to me either. The
> Sacramento Port operation would be an end to end
> with
> the Yolo Northern, Short Line or whatever it's
> currently being called. But, the Port has been
> in]
> decline and financial straits for some time. I
> used to office out of that area and went back to
> take a peek when I was out for the NMRA. Lots of
> empty buildings and the port didn't look too busy.
> I don't see it as often as I used to but it still
> doesn't look like a 1 + 1 = 3 situation.

Rich,

A poster with the screen name SieraRail posted the following in response to my thread over on the West Coast Rail Forum:

The key factor at West Sacto is the Port of Sacramento. In the future, you will see unit trains of iron ore and coal being exported, and U.P. isn't about to give this up.

[www.westcoastrailforums.com]

This obviously is terrible news for the local Sierra employees. They worked so hard to undue the neglect of the line by Union Pacific. Union Pacific will get the line back in significantly better condition than they gave it to Sierra Northern two years ago. The Santa Cruz Branch Line was in goods hands under Sierra Northern’s stewardship and the line and the County will be diminished with their leaving.

Howard