My understanding is Wally commuter train is dead. Did not receive funding. Can anyone confirm this? I would imagine, perhaps mistakenly, that RA would be on top of this issue.renf wrote:There are now many efforts to capture natural gas in the Marcellus field that lies under much of Pennsylvania and western New York. To get that gas to the surface, I infer than much fracting sand is needed. The Ann Arbor is now shipping sand to that area. If the exploration of natural gas continues, will there be a very substantial increase in the shipments of sand on the Ann Arbor?
I wonder how the administrators of Rail America feel about the propsoed Wally commuter train? Does Rail America current operate any regularly scheduled passenger trains?
Frac sand is running from Yuma to Toledo involving GLC/AA. I get conflicting reports that sand traffic (both casting and frac) is great then I hear it's not as great as projected. If things are great both casting and frac sand should be over 300,000 tons this year each (over 3,000 cars each). If things aren't so great I don't know how much less the volumes would be