Iowa Northern RR on it's last legs, land of the lease units and an empty Bryant yard

[@TheLootownpunx]

We have just started using the tracks behind the newer building for our available units instead of crowding our service track. Side note-the 2 4100 units are in the process of ptc install

[@Jfrmr1]

I had been wondering what was going on with the 4100 units. Saw some mechanical crews up in them last time in town and thought perhaps they'd be pulled out for a road train. Not to be....

[@stevenconnolly7907]

Im guessing a decision by the STB should happen this month.

[@Jfrmr1]

My projection is that as soon as CN gets it, they will raise the tariff on carload business and run off all the small grain customers to trucks, which will have to run it to transload grain terminals on larger elevators along the mainline (have seen a version of this happen along a CSX line as a rr manager). Then, they'll cry about no business and petition the STB for abandoning most of the mainline, with the exception of a branch to Shell Rock out of Cedar Falls to serve the industries there that can afford volume pricing. The Oelwein branch will be lucky to survive, as well as the line from Shell Rock to Manly. I'd guess the majority of the former IANR system has 3 years from takeover to scrapping and turning into a bike path. Source: I was a marketing manager on a shortline competing for business on an adjacent CN corridor.

[@stevenconnolly7907]

@@Jfrmr1 Thank you so much for this I filed into the STB under protest/opposition. Re. Tariff rate increases. I'm disappointed by the performance of elected officials in support of CN. The CEO of Iowa Northern also did an interrogatory supportive of CN yet negative of CPKS. I don't understand this. 🛤️

[@TheLootownpunx]

Tons or welded rail going in says a Lil something 😉