No More Chicken Feed
CSX Train PORU-17 gets back underway at North Leeds, ME on 9/17/2023.
The railroad serves a feed customer here which ships chicken feed to a local egg farm. At one time this was a busy customer, but after part of the chicken farm was shut down in the 2000's carloads waned.
If my sources are correct, the last cars for this customer were pulled yesterday, pulling even more traffic from the branches ever shrinking business. After the closure the only active customer will be ND Paper in Rumford. Two other customers, ARC Enterprises and Clarks Scrap occasionally get cars but nothing of substantial value.
Its hard to imagine that not too long ago there were three paper mills on this line in addition to the carload customers.
CSX
Train: PORU-17
9/17/2023
North Leeds, ME
CSX District 1 Rumford Branch
No More Chicken Feed
CSX Train PORU-17 gets back underway at North Leeds, ME on 9/17/2023.
The railroad serves a feed customer here which ships chicken feed to a local egg farm. At one time this was a busy customer, but after part of the chicken farm was shut down in the 2000's carloads waned.
If my sources are correct, the last cars for this customer were pulled yesterday, pulling even more traffic from the branches ever shrinking business. After the closure the only active customer will be ND Paper in Rumford. Two other customers, ARC Enterprises and Clarks Scrap occasionally get cars but nothing of substantial value.
Its hard to imagine that not too long ago there were three paper mills on this line in addition to the carload customers.
CSX
Train: PORU-17
9/17/2023
North Leeds, ME
CSX District 1 Rumford Branch