News about operations change for CSX in Ontario

[Aleks]

Subject: "CN and CSX Transportation Sign Haulage Agreement For Sarnia, Ont.,
Freight Traffic"

From news.google.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060130/flm026.html?.v=17

A cut and paste, as this link will eventually expire:

"CN and CSX Transportation Sign Haulage Agreement For Sarnia, Ont.,
Freight Traffic
Monday January 30, 12:17 pm ET


MONTREAL and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- CN and CSX
Transportation, Inc., (CSXT) announced today a long-term agreement for
CN to haul CSXT traffic to and from Sarnia, Ont., and CSXT connections
in Buffalo, N.Y., and Toledo, Ohio.

Dean Piacente, vice president-chemicals and fertilizer for CSXT, said:
"Under this agreement, CSXT will retain a vital commercial presence in
Sarnia -- a major petrochemical production region -- while using CN's
trains and network for efficient long-haul transportation of our Sarnia
traffic to the rest of the CSXT network in the United States. CSXT's
important Sarnia customers will see better service and faster transit
times via CN, compared with the more circuitous routing their traffic
now takes via Chatham, Ont., Windsor, Detroit, Plymouth, Mich., and
Toledo."

Keith Creel, senior vice-president of CN's Eastern Canada Region, said:
"CN is pleased with this haulage agreement with CSXT. The CSXT traffic
will be a welcome addition to our network in Ontario, Michigan and Ohio,
increasing freight densities and improving economies of scale. CN has
the crews, locomotives and routes to provide solid, time-sensitive
service to CSXT and its Sarnia customers. And we'll deliver on that
promise."

CN will also transport long-haul CSXT traffic destined for Canadian
Pacific Railway Ltd. (CPR) to London, Ont., for interchange with CPR,
improving transit times for CPR. This traffic is currently interchanged
between CSXT and CPR at Chatham.

CSXT will retain track and continue to serve its customers in Sarnia,
and maintain operations on 27 miles of its line between Sarnia and
Wallaceburg, Ont. CSXT plans to discontinue about 26 miles of track
between Wallaceburg and Chatham in accordance with the Canada
Transportation Act.

CN will purchase 12.5 miles of CSXT track between Chatham and Blenheim,
Ont., acquiring control of trackage connecting CN's network to its
Windsor classification yards and the Detroit-Windsor rail tunnel.

Implementation of the agreement is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2006.

[~Z~]

Nice find here Aleks.. information that was posted a month or so back seems to be taking hold and actually happening.

[LansingRailFan]

https://cknewstoday.ca/chatham/news/202 ... ents-hands

https://chathamvoice.com/2020/04/24/all ... e-railway/

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/r ... hatham.htm

[AARR]

I wonder if someone will make a paper railroad of this line

https://cknewstoday.ca/chatham/news/202 ... ents-hands

[ConrailDetr​oit]

A "more money than brain cells" move. Too far and isolated from any density of customers to make a worthwhile investment through all rural farmland.

Currently, the CN 514 runs on Thursdays only, previously on Saturdays only, out of Chatham to service Charron in Chatham, the elevator in Blenheim, and the elevator in Thamseville. The engine and cars is setout and picked up by 438/439 between Windsor and London.

[chapmaja]

A "more money than brain cells" move. Too far and isolated from any density of customers to make a worthwhile investment through all rural farmland.

Currently, the CN 514 runs on Thursdays only, previously on Saturdays only, out of Chatham to service Charron in Chatham, the elevator in Blenheim, and the elevator in Thamseville. The engine and cars is setout and picked up by 438/439 between Windsor and London.

Those locations are on a different line than what the city purchased.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

A "more money than brain cells" move. Too far and isolated from any density of customers to make a worthwhile investment through all rural farmland.

Currently, the CN 514 runs on Thursdays only, previously on Saturdays only, out of Chatham to service Charron in Chatham, the elevator in Blenheim, and the elevator in Thamseville. The engine and cars is setout and picked up by 438/439 between Windsor and London.

Those locations are on a different line than what the city purchased.

The operation of the CN 514 is all that is left on the former CSX Sarnia Sub on the south end.

[chapmaja]

A "more money than brain cells" move. Too far and isolated from any density of customers to make a worthwhile investment through all rural farmland.

Currently, the CN 514 runs on Thursdays only, previously on Saturdays only, out of Chatham to service Charron in Chatham, the elevator in Blenheim, and the elevator in Thamseville. The engine and cars is setout and picked up by 438/439 between Windsor and London.

Those locations are on a different line than what the city purchased.

The operation of the CN 514 is all that is left on the former CSX Sarnia Sub on the south end.

The Wallaceburg to Chatham portion of the line was what the city purchased, and is what they are now selling.