Posted by paul on December 14, 2020 at 16:37:14 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Re: Grain Train 1989 posted by db4600 on December 14, 2020 at 16:04:27:
I’m near what was the DM&E, Canadian Pacific bought most of it. (Didn’t realize they still designated it the Soo.)It was getting pretty dilapidated until the DM&E chased after running coal from Wyoming to the Mississippi. Ultimately that never happened, but they did some upgrades as they worked on that and even ended up putting in welded track. Meanwhile the ethanol plants and grain loops added some traffic and made the rail workable again.
The line north of me is in bad shape, it was basically bankrupt and dead several times, but the govt and rotating ownership groups kept stringing it along until it too got an ethanol plant and some rail loops on it, and seems to be functioning again. It is still a poor track, very beat up sloppy slow track, but is maybe off its death bed. It used to haul a lot of rock. Still running on fumes.
Actually rail to the Pacific Northwest has been very slow for several years, as China quit buying, but it has ramped up again the last few months, probsbly saw more grain trains the past 3 months than I saw the previous three years.
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