NS Trash Train Service - Trains News Digest for Friday, April 9, 2021

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Bruce
I totally agree. 
Based on NS’s past decisions regarding shedding short (and marginally profitable) lines, it seems logical to surmise that this termination of service was decided by the corporate bean counters. How to dump a line? (pardon the pun)....by making the price so high the customer (in this case a regional entity/municipality) cannot absorb the increase.
I cannot imagine this termination of service was initiated by Roanoke. 
Also of note.....the article only gave a historical perspective. Nothing was mentioned about “why”......the $64 question. 
Hopefully some old fashioned investigating reporting will be forthcoming soon. 

Herb Edwards
Lynchburg

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> On Apr 9, 2021, at 8:03 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 3:25 PM Norris wrote:
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>> Important Trash Train News. 
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> Pretty shortsighted on both sides of the operation. Norfolk Southern had a steady income stream from this train but got greedy and jacked up the price (perhaps on purpose because some bean counters saw a low rate of return for stockholders and wanted to drop it). The resource authority just added to the mess that is I-81 by adding multiple tractor-trailers to an already crowded highway (how happy will people be to be stuck next to a full trash truck on a hot July day when traffic is at a standstill for the "wreck of the day"?). While the tracks to the landfill will become a roadway, trucks will still need to get from the exit to the new road, traversing a narrow and curvy stretch of the Ironto road. Dumb all the way around.
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> Bruce in Blacksburg
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