2008 Carleton Railway Generates Revenue on the ICR
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Not content to depend on past performance, the progressive and hard-working management of the Carleton Railway (ca. 2008) continues a long tradition of pursuing new opportunities to increase revenue and ensure customer satisfaction. Management has been especially interested in generating business in the Saint John area amid the talk of several new industrial projects in the works in the port city. The latest operating session on the ICR illustrated the success of management's latest initiatives.
Seen above is CRL box #3826 in the ICR's McAdam yard. It will soon head onto the Shogomoc subdivision on its way back to Avondale for another load. 
Another CRL freight car, #6757, arrives in McAdam with a load destined for Saint John.
Another loaded car #6758 passes through Fredericton Jct. on the ICR fast freight with a priority shipment for one of the railway's new customers in Saint John.
A shot of the same ICR train (including CRL #6757) on the main in Grand Bay. It was about this time that ICR management began to realize that there had been an invasion of several CRL freight cars on the ICR. Some concerns were expressed about the syphoning of traffic from the ICR.
CRL car #6759 at its destination in the ICR's Mill Street yard. Carleton Railway management sent an agent (with camera) to observe the delivery of the freight cars and provide the necessary 'research' to enable the Carleton Railway to make prudent decisions about future shipments. Although there was a considerable delay in the scheduled departure of the ICR's fast freight from McAdam, as well as a recurring mechanical problem along the way, the ICR train arrived in Saint John in time for the promised "next day delivery" for the Carleton Railway's new customer. The CRL's friendly management will carefully consider the results of this first opportunity to use the ICR as a major connection to Saint John. Of course, it remains to be seen how ICR management will respond to this increased competition for business.
7 comments:
Doug never knows what will show up on the ICR from one operating session to another. Do you know yet if the CRL cars will be seen regularly on the ICR?
Scott
Of course that will depend on ICR management. However, the holes (for ICR waybills) are drilled in the roof and the cars won't fit on the 1965-era layout!
I've read about other layouts interchanging cars from one to another. I've wondered how we could do something like that on our layouts. Since our car movements are controlled by a computer program I'm not sure how we'd do it. It's a "someday" thing to look into.
Scott
I have read where people have packed cars in packages and had them deliveried by UPS to another railroad.
The other option is to exchange cars with the other railroad, as Steve and Doug have done.
Doug
WRS
But with our system they would have to be entered into and removed from the computer program for that session.
Neither Doug nor I will bring the visiting rolling stock back to its "home" layout, since the eras are 23 years apart. Therefore neither he nor I need to worry about real interchange. If we don't use some of the cars for a session, they just go on the shelf.
I think that having cars from each other's layouts adds a sense of "reality" to both--which helps considering they are both freelance model railways.
Ahhh.... I see. Brian, Derwin, and I talked about the possibility of doing some interchange last evening. I think we have something worked out that we may be able to do it without too much difficulty. We may give it a try but limit it to only a few cars in the program we use.
Scott
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