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looks like a shoving move

I was pleased to see a cut of 9 NJT gravel cars at the beginning of the Chimney Rock branch today. Maybe there will be more business to come on this very rarely used branch.

SIMS Metals still has a huge scrap iron pile in Port Newark. I'd be surprised if the Port Authority wouldn't want that land for more container handling. A Port Raritan might be a good solution for handling bulk commodities like scrap and salt. Bulk cargo ships are also smaller in volume than contain...

Railroads have gotten smarter about sharing revenues with short line partners. My understanding is that the short line gets a meaningful percentage of the revenue from the railcar delivered. I think it is 25% to 33% but I'm not sure. Even if the short line is only 5 miles long, the division makes se...

Having inexpensive old clunkers that occasionally have cataclysmic mechanical failures is probably part of their business model. This sort of experience will probably increase as their engine's utilization rates increase, they've probably expected it would happen at some poinit, and they're probably...

There are still many military train moves elsewhere, but they appear to be dedicated military trains and not "loose" carload shipments. It's a little shortsighted to dismantle Earle's rail capabilities, since ammunition reloads during wartime could require a huge number of truck movements.

six months ago Kinkisharyo's yard area was full of containers. Now it is mostly empty though some equipment remains. A high side gon is there, probably to collect scrap metal from Kinkisharyo's manufacturing operations, along with their engine and an empty 5-well container car. Equipment is still th...

They've been providing transload to the container shipper for at least 6 months already. I'm guessing that they started the operation and then realized they might need to file proper paperwork if they wanted to expand operations. I wish them every success in this venture.

I don't think D&R only gets 50 cents a mile. I think the Class 1 gets probably about $4.40 a mile per 100 ton railcar, and then they share a percentage of the total haul with the short lines involved. Here is a link to a gvt website tracking shipping rates by various modes. Look at the second ta...

Isn't Stiles St Yard the yard next to the former auto factory that NJ Transit is rehabbing to store trains during hurricanes?

Maybe the union wants the freight traffic to go to nonunion trucking firms? The nonunion DRRR is a win for the unionized Class I carriers, who can grow business if DRRR succeeds with their new venture. If anything, unions should think about making themselves value creators and partners for employers...

With extremely high natural gas prices now, I'm sure the utility is regretting the decision to shut down this coal plant.

they will be getting the line just as lumber traffic starts to dry up.

Bracdude you may be missing the 2016 system map on NS's website:
http://www.nscorp.com/content/dam/nscor ... -print.pdf
It even shows a tiny thumb line for the middlebrook branch

It's starting to look like a late-era CNJ branch line .