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10/29/2001
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ASLRRA announces Marketing Award winners
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With its annual meeting cancelled due to the events of Sept. 11, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) was left without a formal platform to announce winners of the organization's 2001 Marketing Awards.
So ASLRRA opted instead to name the winners Oct. 29 in its weekly Views & News newsletter, declaring 136-mile Heart of Georgia Railroad Inc. (HOG), eight-mile Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad Co. and 290-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway Corp. winners out of 12 submitted entries.
HOG customer Douglas Asphalt Co. last year planned to build a new plant and considered a Norfolk Southern Railway- or truck-served location. When construction costs of a new siding and mainline switch proved to be economically impossible, Douglas Asphalt opted for a truck-served site.
But HOG officials found a satisfactory site, constructed an additional 1,600 feet of track, obtained a zoning variance, negotiated lease terms with the property owners, and tailored a service plan and rate structure with NS to keep shipments moving by rail.
In naming HOG a Marketing Award winner, ASLRRA officials claimed the cooperation between NS and HOG demonstrates that railroads can compete with trucks for short-haul moves.
ASLRRA plans to spotlight the other two winners within the next couple of Views & News issues.
Meanwhile, runners-up included 55-mile Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Co.; 447-mile Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Inc.; 98-mile Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad Inc.; 1,385-mile I&M Rail Link (both EBILL and distribution center); 465-mile Indiana & Ohio Railroad Corp.; 29-mile Lancaster and Chester Railway Co.; 35-mile Pacific Harbor Line Inc.; and 165-mile St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad Co.
So ASLRRA opted instead to name the winners Oct. 29 in its weekly Views & News newsletter, declaring 136-mile Heart of Georgia Railroad Inc. (HOG), eight-mile Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad Co. and 290-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway Corp. winners out of 12 submitted entries.
HOG customer Douglas Asphalt Co. last year planned to build a new plant and considered a Norfolk Southern Railway- or truck-served location. When construction costs of a new siding and mainline switch proved to be economically impossible, Douglas Asphalt opted for a truck-served site.
But HOG officials found a satisfactory site, constructed an additional 1,600 feet of track, obtained a zoning variance, negotiated lease terms with the property owners, and tailored a service plan and rate structure with NS to keep shipments moving by rail.
In naming HOG a Marketing Award winner, ASLRRA officials claimed the cooperation between NS and HOG demonstrates that railroads can compete with trucks for short-haul moves.
ASLRRA plans to spotlight the other two winners within the next couple of Views & News issues.
Meanwhile, runners-up included 55-mile Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Co.; 447-mile Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Inc.; 98-mile Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad Inc.; 1,385-mile I&M Rail Link (both EBILL and distribution center); 465-mile Indiana & Ohio Railroad Corp.; 29-mile Lancaster and Chester Railway Co.; 35-mile Pacific Harbor Line Inc.; and 165-mile St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad Co.
