Sorry, the guy who bought the Camus Prairie RR did so for the iron scrap value only. He only operated it until he was forced to repair overpasses by the govt. Then he shut it down and pulled all the iron out and abandoned it.
What forced him to close it was a derailment on an overpass going over a creek. Two or three of the cars centerbeam flat cars derailed and tipped over.
As I said earlier, this happens all the time. We even get calls from insurance companies with salvage loads of lumber.
Sometimes there might only be 75% of the shipment left. The rest got throw away or stolen. Lumber laying on the side of the tracks especially near Indian reservations gets scooped up really quick.
Thanks for the posts. It seems it was just not reported as often previously.
It shows how attention can create what seems abnormal when it isn’t.