by lakeshoredave
I recently saw a photo on flickr of someone who had a photo of a CSX roadrailer train that was run in cooperation with BNSF from the West Coast to Northern New Jersey. How many years did these trains run for?
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NEW CSXT ROADRAILER TRAIN:
> > Starting on Monday, June 18th, 2001, CSXT will start running an eastern
> > segment of the Ice-Cold Express. These will be the first dedicated
> > RoadRailer trains on CSXT in many years. The new trains, Q-162
> > (eastbound) and Q-163 (westbound) will depart the BNSF's Cicero Yard in
> > Chicago, IL on Monday and Saturday around 16:00 EDT. Westbound trains
> > will depart on Monday and Thursday out of Little Ferry, NJ. The route is
> > via Selkirk, NY and Willard, OH. Arrival back in the Chicago, IL area
> > will be at the CNIC's Markham Yard.
lakeshoredave wrote:I recently saw a photo on flickr of someone who had a photo of a CSX roadrailer train that was run in cooperation with BNSF from the West Coast to Northern New Jersey. How many years did these trains run for?Do you still have link to that photo?
rr503 wrote:Did they run to Highbridge or the Harlem River Intermodal Terminal?I don't know. I saw Roadrailer here in Rochester.
lvrr325 wrote:I never saw one through Syracuse, but I recall there was a run off NS from Buffalo to Rochester.Yeah, NS and CR had a Roadrailer terminal at Goodman Street Yard in Rochester. I photographed it at least once in the late '90s. The Roadrailer terminal was moved to Buffalo by NS around the time of the CR split.
In fact, it was a big surprise the end of July to pass over NS in Macedonia OH (below Cleveland) and see a Roadrailer train, I think it's the first time I'd ever seen one in person.
The Roadrailer was designed and produced by the Bi-Modal Corporation of Greenwich, Conn. The service that started last week is being run by a Bi-Modal subsidiary that operates the vehicles. Using Conrail facilities, it is running a train composed of the vans on a regular schedule between the High Bridge Terminal in the Bronx and Buffalo.http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/09/busin ... rails.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Matt Langworthy wrote:Yes, CR offered Roadrailer service between Buffalo and the Bronx, starting around 1982. Roadrailer was active when I moved to Rochester in 1991 and I think the Buffalo to Bronx run ended with the CR split in '99.No I know there's no Roadrailer btwn buffalo and Bronx since 94 when I started to railfanning.. Only Roadrailer that I had seen in NYS was Rochester - FT Wayne. That's the only RoadRailer I had seen running thru (literally terminated at ) Rochester anytime since 1994. This business didn't last long after Day one. I'll check to see how long it continued to run to Buffalo.
Unfortunately, there was an imbalance of traffic between New York and Buffalo, with loads being carried eastbound, and mostly empty trailers returning west. After almost two years of attempts to make the train profitable, Road Rail Transportation ceased its operations in New York State. Bill Moll oversaw the departure of the final westbound Empire State Xpress train from Highbridge on July 30, 1984, before he made his way home through the streets of the Bronx for the last timeSource: http://klnl.org/magazine/KLLNews15.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
rr503 wrote:Too bad it didn't last.No. NS aren't going to continue it. They will keep running it until trailers fall apart.
Thanks for all the information!
I hope they try it again