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Re: Iowa Pacific Freight Outlook on Santa Cruz Line
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 01-05-2013 - 19:44
WAF Wrote:
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> watsy Wrote:
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> -----
> > Almost nothing at all right now. At best, 3
> berry
> > coolers, a fish packing house and big creek
> > lumber. Some say there's a biodiesel plant
> that's
> > coming on line with 1000+ carloads a year but
> > looking at the length of the siding they built
> for
> > it I'd guess its going to be less than 300 cars
> a
> > year. I don't know how they are going to make
> any
> > money down there. Might be as wishful thinking
> as
> > the train to christmas town was. Damn shame too.
> I
> > was hoping I could catch a train in SC to San
> Jose
> > someday soon.
>
> Now you know why the UP unloaded it and the Sierra
> walked away from it... no business
Precisely. They need to ramp up a whole series of dinner trains, wine tasting, beer tasting, Christmas, Easter etc. etc. themes and attract the tourist biz because for sure there ain't any industrial or ag biz to sustain them. That biofuel operation in Watsonville isn't going to be sending stuff up the Santa Cruz---it will be going out of WVJ on the UP it it goes anywhere.
C.
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> watsy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Almost nothing at all right now. At best, 3
> berry
> > coolers, a fish packing house and big creek
> > lumber. Some say there's a biodiesel plant
> that's
> > coming on line with 1000+ carloads a year but
> > looking at the length of the siding they built
> for
> > it I'd guess its going to be less than 300 cars
> a
> > year. I don't know how they are going to make
> any
> > money down there. Might be as wishful thinking
> as
> > the train to christmas town was. Damn shame too.
> I
> > was hoping I could catch a train in SC to San
> Jose
> > someday soon.
>
> Now you know why the UP unloaded it and the Sierra
> walked away from it... no business
Precisely. They need to ramp up a whole series of dinner trains, wine tasting, beer tasting, Christmas, Easter etc. etc. themes and attract the tourist biz because for sure there ain't any industrial or ag biz to sustain them. That biofuel operation in Watsonville isn't going to be sending stuff up the Santa Cruz---it will be going out of WVJ on the UP it it goes anywhere.
C.
