QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — OmniTRAX has withdrawn its application to run the Saratoga Springs-North Creek, N.Y., line formerly operated by Iowa Pacific, leaving just one group as a potential operator.
“We’ve got better opportunities elsewhere,” OmniTRAX spokesman Ron Margulis told the Albany Times Union.
Originally, three groups had considered taking over the route operated by Iowa Pacific as the Saratoga & North Creek until 2018. [See “Three companies express interest in operating Saratoga Springs rail line,” Trains News Wire, May 3, 2019.] The remaining group is headed by a former Saratoga County Economic Development Corp. official, Jack Kelley, and consultant Steve Fisk, working with Las Vegas-based United Rail, which seeks to operate passenger trains over the route, parts of which are owned by Warren County, the town of Corinth, N.Y., and Iowa Pacific.
