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

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My thinking this is prelude to shutting down the VGN between Narrows and Roanoke for sure there not going to need it much longer.

Larry Evans
 

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> On Apr 9, 2021, at 5:13 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.
> 
> Bruce in Blacksburg
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