There Is A Railroad Known As Iowa Pacific Around Northern Illinois Which The Iowa Pacific Railroad Has Three Divisision Track:
Elk Grove And Bensenville And Goose Island
The Iowa Pacific Railroad Besenville And Elk Grove Division Do Some Good Business Which Each Line Has More Than Seven Customers Which The Goose Island Had Double The Amount Which Some Had Been Abandoned As Time Passed.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Used To Provide Train Service To Goose Island Which The Train Would Work Three Dozen Customers Around Noon On A When Needed Basis Which Would Be Seven Times A Week.
Once The Iowa Pacific Railroad Purchased The Line Around 2007 Businesses Had Gone Moved To Another Location To Receive More Train Service.
I IP Railroad Each Year Had More Than One Abandoned Business Which Now The Railroad From Three Dozen Customers Has Three Customers Which The Railroad Would Service Each Customer Three Times A Week Which The Customers Have A Low Carload Rate.
Customer Annual Carload Rate:
Metal Yard Business: Around 100
Lumber Yard Business: Around 50
The Railroad Would Use A Classic SW8 Locomotive In An Awesome Paint Scheme Which The Railroads Elk Grove And Bensenville Line Do Good Business Which The Elk Grove Line Has Around A Dozen Customers And The Bensenville Line Has Six.
Iowa Pacific Has Owned More Than One Railroad Such As A Tourist Line Around California And Another Terminal Railroad Around Arizona.
I Was Curious As To How This Line Is Around Which The Track Would Street Run Around The Whole Goose Island Area And To Get To Goose Island One Person Would Move The Locomotive To The River As Another Would Drive A Vehicle Around To Goose Island And Provide Movement To A Bridge Which The Railroad Would Go Around 5 MPH Because Of Horrible Track Condition.
OK, I think the OP wants to know how the Goose Island branch of the Chicago Terminal RR which used to have a large number of customers but now has 3 of low/medium car-loading levels per years survives, and then goes on to mention that one employee runs the switcher across a rather poorly maintained bridge, and then thru street trackage, while another employee tail along in a road-vehicle (among other things, to operate the poorly maintained movable bridge).
The answer of course is…I dunno, maybe they assess a big fee for each carload they handle; sounds like track maintaince is minimal.
chutton01 - Thanks for the translation [tup] , the link - and I like your avatar !
As to that original question: I doubt if they get a big fee for each carload; instead, they more likely get a ‘normal’ “division of revenue” from UP, and make that suffice by spending/ putting back very little of it into the track and bridge maintenance. As is often the case, that approach is not sustainable in the long run - they can continue to run and deplete the line’s capital investment only until a major track or bridge component fails, and/ or a derailment occurs - then they’re out of luck. But the new (Sept. 2010) FRA Bridge Safety Management Program may affect them before that occurs - they need to have one in place by the fall of 2012, and it requires annual inspections anad ratings by a qualified railroad bridge engineer, etc.
I wonder if the OP B-Daddy will return to this thread - I like to apologize if we busted your chops, but your writing style is very hard to parse correctly.
This is within the Chicago City limits it looks like, so maybe they can get a grant from the new Rahm adminstration for track/bridge maintainence (like Pennsvylnia used to grant) - don’t know how business friendly he will be.
Thanks, but the credit goes to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has several of those signs posted on Export St. in Port Newark/Port Elizabeth - yep, they’re prototypical…