Re: Requiem for the Santa Cruz Branch
Author: Beach Cruiser
Date: 01-06-2012 - 19:45
mook Wrote:
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> Of the shippers you mentioned, only one is not in
> Watsonville. Now that UP has taken the line back,
> I would expect an embargo or surcharge on work
> past Watsonville that renders shipments there
> uneconomic.
Something is going on. UP has yet to send a train onto the line. A reefer has sat spotted at Americold for a week after being the last move by Sierra Northern. At least 2 wood loads destined for a branch customer have been rusting to the rails at the Junction since the wee hours of last Saturday, brought in by the same hauler that removed SERA 50 from the scene. The computer has them billed for "interchange delivery" to a phantom Sierra Northern each day, slipping to the next as nothing moves. Monday morning is now the next estimated time, but who knows what will happen.