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Western Railroad Discussion > P&W Newberg Near the End?Date: 11/23/15 12:44 P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: spider1319 With SP Fiber closing the paper/pulp mill in Newberg,Oregon on an indefinite basis,one of the wests largest pulp and paper mills is now idle,hopefully temporarily.The first view shows the Portland and Western exclusively assigned switcher going down the mile long Blaine St. in downtown Newberg. The last two images show the switcher at the mill.The switcher was assigned exclusively to serve the mill and went on and off duty inside the mill itself.Loads and empties were exchanged with the Mac Switcher in Newberg on the old SP Westside Branch The mill was sold to Westrock and and the "indefinite closure" was annouced two weeks after the purchase in October.Everybody is hoping the mill will reopen with a new manufacturing base of corrugated paber products.I understand the last day of operation of the mill was November 20. Bill Webb
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/15 12:46 by spider1319. Date: 11/23/15 13:18 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: 3rdswitch Very nice bunch. Too bad this is happening all across this country.
JB Date: 11/23/15 13:41 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: tomstp For a mill that had so much traffic that a switcher was stationed in it, it seems weird it would be sold and immediately closed. What is going on?
Date: 11/23/15 14:33 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: spider1319 Westrock has mills all over the US,so my guess would be to reduce capacity.Buying the competition allows you to do this.Maybe the mill will reopen as I indicated in the post only not making newsprint ,but brown corragated paper. That's one of the rumors anyway. Bill Webb
Date: 11/23/15 14:47 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: OliveHeights I've been through Newberg dozens of times and never caught a train going down the street. Looks like I won't even need to look anymore, sad.
Date: 11/23/15 15:30 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: fbe The problem with making the components for cardboard boxes is there needs to be product to place inside the finished boxes. With so many products coming from overseas now the boxes are also made overseas as well. No foreign company is going to import US/Canadian cardboard or cardboard components when they can find recycled scrap cardboard to chop up and make into cardboard in their own company with really cheap labor.
Ask the workers at Schilling near Missoula about their which used to make linerboard for cardboard boxes for products made in the US. Posted from iPhone Date: 11/23/15 15:34 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: PasadenaSub Without the plant in Newberg, is there enough business in McMinnville to keep the P&W's Westsider job (from Albany) going?
Rich Date: 11/23/15 17:35 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: SilvertonRR100 PasadenaSub Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Without the plant in Newberg, is there enough > business in McMinnville to keep the P&W's > Westsider job (from Albany) going? > > Rich There are grain elevators and a steel plant making sheet steel and pipe as well as wire rope. Beyond St Joseph (east end of McMinnville) the paper plant is the item. Not much else. Rob Date: 11/23/15 20:18 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: truxtrax SilvertonRR100 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- <<<<SNIP>>>>> > > There are grain elevators and a steel plant making > sheet steel and pipe as well as wire rope. > Beyond St Joseph (east end of McMinnville) the > paper plant is the item. Not much else. > > Rob And with the trestle north of Sherwood burning down, I can see abandonment for this entire branch all the way from the junction in West Lake Oswego to McMinnville. Larry Dodgion Wilsonville, OR Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/15 20:20 by truxtrax. Date: 11/23/15 22:07 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: Coalca ^^ There's an active tank car customer right at the north end of the burned down trestle, served from the Lake-O end. I caught the switcher about to cross Tualatin-Sherwood hwy maybe a month ago.
Date: 11/24/15 19:53 Re: P&W Newberg Near the End? Author: asheldrake doesn't the lease require the rebuilding of the trestle?
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