by Littleredcaboose
Both haul in the same corridors so why is NS the only roadrailer railroad going?
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David Benton wrote:perhaps because they'd have to run the trains well , and be customer foscused . i think most would agree NS does better on both scores .Cowford's response is the more-rational answer as well as one might say it goes to a difference in philosophy and to the economic and market characteristics of both roads. That CSX roadrailer train was actually implemented specifically for a customer and came from a customer-focused point-of-view. CSX holds the service franchise over NS in plenty of intermodal lanes and has a stronger retail position within this segment of traffic. And, on many marketing fronts, one could point to plenty of examples where CSX and its predecessors were the innovators while others followed. In an overall sense, I believe one could argue that CSX runs their trains as well as NS and is at least as focused upon their customers and markets as is NS. Perhaps your point of view comes from railfan perceptions generated by a pro-NS bias found in some railfan media outlets which is cultivated by NS's access through ex-/NS officials and folks closely associated with their railroad vs. CSX which does not want/have that kind of access within railfan-oriented media.
QB 52.32 wrote:David Benton wrote:perhaps because they'd have to run the trains well , and be customer foscused . i think most would agree NS does better on both scores .Cowford's response is the more-rational answer as well as one might say it goes to a difference in philosophy and to the economic and market characteristics of both roads. That CSX roadrailer train was actually implemented specifically for a customer and came from a customer-focused point-of-view. CSX holds the service franchise over NS in plenty of intermodal lanes and has a stronger retail position within this segment of traffic. And, on many marketing fronts, one could point to plenty of examples where CSX and its predecessors were the innovators while others followed. In an overall sense, I believe one could argue that CSX runs their trains as well as NS and is at least as focused upon their customers and markets as is NS. Perhaps your point of view comes from railfan perceptions generated by a pro-NS bias found in some railfan media outlets which is cultivated by NS's access through ex-/NS officials and folks closely associated with their railroad vs. CSX which does not want/have that kind of access within railfan-oriented media.
ConductorJ wrote:CSX is a business like any other business.And they used to be a leader in intermodal. But they decided they could make more money by selling Sea-Land to someone else.
Gadfly wrote:3 wordsQB 52.32 wrote:David Benton wrote:perhaps because they'd have to run the trains well , and be customer foscused . i think most would agree NS does better on both scores .Cowford's response is the more-rational answer as well as one might say it goes to a difference in philosophy and to the economic and market characteristics of both roads. That CSX roadrailer train was actually implemented specifically for a customer and came from a customer-focused point-of-view. CSX holds the service franchise over NS in plenty of intermodal lanes and has a stronger retail position within this segment of traffic. And, on many marketing fronts, one could point to plenty of examples where CSX and its predecessors were the innovators while others followed. In an overall sense, I believe one could argue that CSX runs their trains as well as NS and is at least as focused upon their customers and markets as is NS. Perhaps your point of view comes from railfan perceptions generated by a pro-NS bias found in some railfan media outlets which is cultivated by NS's access through ex-/NS officials and folks closely associated with their railroad vs. CSX which does not want/have that kind of access within railfan-oriented media.
CSX also derails more trains than NS! Yeah, I guess I am biased towards NS. I used to go to one of CSX's/Seaboard depots to interchange waybills. IT was so delapidated I was almost afraid to go IN it! I just wasn't used to all that apparent "poverty". Our name for CSX was "Slow-board Clothesline!"! LMAO
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