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So are they pretty much done tearing out the track at this point>

And the previous route that CP has on the old Plymouth Sub is never congested.

Fred W. Frailey

Winter 2013-'14 was an unmitigated disaster. Aren't there better ways for railroads to sustain a bad season?

This is the article I am referring to.

The latest issue of Trains has an article from Fred F. about the past winter woes. Part of the article points fingers at CP and mentions that private railroads were " punishing" CP including NS re trackage rights between Detroit and Chicago. Does anyone know the details behind this? I do know that a...

The Lansing State Journal is mentioning the DNR is thinking about selling 10,000 acres near Rexton MI for a limestone mining operation by Graymont the operator of the Port Inland operation. The counties are Luce, Mackinaw and Chippewa. There was an existing quarry Hendricks near Garfield Twp. Questi...

Since most of the action is now on the CN side I would suggest the Amtrak station. Trowbridge was a hopping place back when CP was using the CSX line. Sadly those days are gone.

Any updates on traffic or any maintenance improvements?

And yet Pioneer has remained in business all these years hasn't it? And most shortlines use rebuilt first generation power, there's nothing wrong with GP-9s, GP-7s GP-30s take a look at Indiana Northeastern's roster sometime. Pioneer has many GP-16s as dos Corman. As to not be interested in maintain...

Probably keeping some of the track for car storage purposes. Pioneer purchased this out of bankruptcy court for $200,000 cash and $300,000 shares in stock. They had targeted it for 500 cars per year don't think they ever got that. The big disappointment was not getting the Coca Cola business in Paw ...

Here's more, the second reader comment is interesting:

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/m ... ers--33578

This was Canadian National's for one year: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-national-buys-locomotives-171522359.html;_ylt=A0LEVzdOu1ZT_zYAwRtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzOHIzajlyBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTM5OV8x Lets say that you do purchase 100 locomotive per year since the 2008 recessio...

I thought this was interesting: http://rail.railplanning.com/files/2012/03/20120306-Elliott-Rail-Finance-Presentation-v19.pdf Can I assume then the used locomotive market is tight and the prices that shortlines/regionals would be paying for used power (NRE, Larry's Truck and Electric) are fairly sti...

Is there a locomotive shortage on Class I these days? Some of my friends were telling me that BNSF has pulled all their power out of storage. This seems a bit strange to me as all the Class I have ordered or received significant new power even during the depth of the current recession.

What a circus and I'm guessing the new station will be smaller than the current station even with all bus traffic they've added. The waiting room for when the station is locked (generally either 330 or 530pm daily) was actually going to be smaller than the current area which at most can handle 6 peo...

The new intermodal station in East Lansing? What has been accomplished there since it was announced outside of moving some stuff out of vacant MSU buildings and drilling some holes in the ground? Answer nothing. CATA, MSU and Amtrak apparently are fine with all sorts of bus traffic now coming and go...

This discusses the NDW in detail:

http://www.otcmarkets.com/financialRepo ... &id=118324

Pioneer's financials for the last year:

http://www.otcmarkets.com/financialRepo ... &id=118325

Everyone was access to railroads ie passenger freight customers but no one want to pay for the access. Funny how that works.

What was the "as delivered" scheme for the D*M RS-2s? Any pictures?

It was the CP trains combined with CN that made Trowbridge a great place for train fans. It wasn't usual to have three trains waiting at the diamond. I certainly miss the Soo White SD 60s with the lights on the hood, the Red Barns, the SD90s and all the other power that appeared on the CP, I miss th...