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Old 04-15-2019, 04:30 PM   #19
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The railroads got away from the small shippers a long time ago, there's no money in it for them, the money is in the big volume moves, those shippers you mentioned are better served by trucks and don't think for second the railroad dumped them completely. They still move a lot of freight for the small shippers, but they go to terminals like that of Worcester and Ayer, where freight is transloaded to trucks to bring to the final destinations and vice versa. A perfect example of the size and scope you would be looking at, look at the Ossipee Aggregates, each car load of earth moved by the railroad, would take 3 trucks to move what one rail car can do. New Hampshire Northcoast moves anywhere from 25 to 45 car loads 4 days a week, now do you think those same companies that you mention could load 25 rail cars 4 times a week. Your talking peanuts, I'm talking watermelons. We need a watermelon size manufacturing (like the old Berlin Mills), in this state again.
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