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- From: wbrill@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Warren Brill)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:26:53 GMT
- Subject: Re: Genesee & Wyoming Now in Oregon
- Message-ID: <122200199@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan18.201448.12869@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
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- In rec.railroad, johnm@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com.mcm.hp.com (John Mosbarger) writes:
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- > As had been mentioned in various railfan publications, SP has selected
- > the Genesee & Wyoming RR to operate its westside branchlines, except for the
- > Coos Bay and Tillamook Branches. Last Friday (1/15) the agreement was
- > finally signed, and the new operator should be running its own trains by
- > this summer. Instead of trains operating out of Portland on the north end
- > and Eugene on the south, The G&W will run from Eugene to Albany via trackage
- > rights, and then onto the Toledo Branch to access Corvallis, McMinnville,
- > Dawson, Monroe, Newberg, et.al.
- >
- > These branches had been pretty much the domain of SD9's, but rumor has
- > it that SP informed the G&W that it did not want them to run any 6-axle
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Why not? Wasn't the whole purpose of
- S(pecial) D(uty) locomotives with 6
- axles to better distribute the weight
- so as to not damage lighter (branch
- line) track? Or am I missing something?
- Is the weight that much higher on an
- SD than a Geep?
-
- > power over their trackage. Also, there is a rumor that SP's Traffic Mgr.,
- > Bob Melbo, will resign from SP and take an equivalent position with the G&W.
- >
- > John
- > --
- > John Mosbarger * Do not condemn the judgement of others
- > HP McMinnville, OR * because they differ from your own. You
- > johnm@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com * may both be wrong.
- > * --Dandemis
- > Opinions are mine and HP is not authorized to use them
- >
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