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Re: Requiem for the Santa Cruz Branch
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 01-07-2012 - 07:13
Beach Cruiser Wrote:
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> 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.
Without a car number I can't properly respond but if the trace shows "Interchange Delivered" to the Sierra Northern @ Watsonville, UP's computer still recognizes the Sierra Northern as the operator and the car(s) are likely to sit until someone @ UP pushes the right button on the computer.
Dick Samuels
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> mook Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.
Without a car number I can't properly respond but if the trace shows "Interchange Delivered" to the Sierra Northern @ Watsonville, UP's computer still recognizes the Sierra Northern as the operator and the car(s) are likely to sit until someone @ UP pushes the right button on the computer.
Dick Samuels
