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CSX is getting ready to execute a phase 2 4-track expansion of the Westborough transload facility.

From the dominant Class 1 segment of the North American freight rail industry where the structure requires cooperation amongst competition, boiled down sure looks like NS' PAS lawsuit is about trying to send a bigger message or cause action, or, leverage an element inside the acquisition deal within...

Thank you for that contribution, Mr. Saxo, now you can return to the darkness under that bridge where you like to hang out.

Getting back to the Worcester Main Line with its new owner, expensive upgrades and increasing traffic common sense tells us something has changed. Now, what could it be? Is it because of the wave of a magic wand, that someone "cares", or with the arrival of a "new sheriff" in tow...

Beginning this summer, through August 426/427 train pair average car count (excluding rail, stone & ties) is generally up ~33% with ~2/3 account growth in new and existing traffic moving via the ex-Barbers gateway. The other ~1/3 came from fewer trainstarts within the restructuring of B&A tr...

F74265A wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 11:09 am Since birch hill subaru guy unfortunately disappeared from YouTube...

B721's traffic declines had nothing to do with PSR. If anything it had more to do with the shift of perishable traffic to containers and trailers and the lack of Plate F beyond Beacon Park on the Grand Junction as the old Plate C refrigerated cars began to be retired. Not one customer was "lost...

To be clear, here's what you had posted previously: Trains are regularly outlawing now due to the 437 having to set off the P&W intermodals in West Springfield for the 019. It creates another bottleneck in West Springfield. Recrews basically every day since they started doing this. So the 019 ca...

For the first time, this morning's I019 carried the P&W stacks on the headpin out of Worcester instead of being forwarded into West Springfield by M437 for an I019 pickup there.

Houghton Chemical? One consignee worth a carload or two a week (that could be transloaded elsewhere)? Everything else at Beacon Park was transloading, warehousing/distribution and intermodal destined or originated elsewhere. Demand had already shifted away from Beacon Park when the land was sold, ac...

The end result was beneficial for both freight and passenger rail. On the rail freight side, Beacon Park was antiquated both in terms of freight demand and lacking doublestack container capability or potential. Demand had and continues shifting away from Boston out to/toward the I-495 beltway/beyond...

Latest had M437 continuing to carry the P&W's out of Worcester, including the stacks on the headpin, but into W. Springfield around midnight this morning ahead of I117 and I020, while new symbol M439 continues carrying the Framinghams/Westboroughs and with some mixing and matching as well to dat...

It was my understanding around the time of the sale of Beacon Park's land that the railroad's lease was executed in 1960. Thinking about it further in recollection, I believe it was actually retained between the Commonwealth and Conrail then CSX within the sale of the land by the MA Turnpike Authori...

As I understand it, this is early low-hanging fruit, Mr. Norman, as characterized by Messrs. Tosh and McGinnis, for CSX delivery moving additionally along with existing traffic, not specifically dependent upon completion of the infrastructure upgrades.

CSX sold the yard to Harvard University after moving operations out of it. Harvard is working w/the state in turn, and is getting a new station and a ton more land that was once roadway spaghetti but closer to the campus... which can be turned into student housing. The land under Beacon Park was so...