Last Saturday I saw very long string of loaded auto racks, pulled by CSX locomotives, pass through Deming Park on the CP belt line that goes around Terre Haute to the east. It was the longest train I've ever seen on that line except for coal trains. It was the only auto racks I've ever seen there. It was the only CSX locomotives I've ever seen there. (The usual daily traffic is one or two pairs of coal trains, a few short strings of cars for the industries including a railroad tie plant (generally without FREDs), and the occasional train of mixed freight (with FRED), that appears to be headed off down the Latta Sub.
Does anyone know if CP has picked up some major shipments of new cars over the Latta Sub, and leased CSX locomotives to pull them? Or if there was some kind of accident or obstruction on the CSX north-south line in Terre Haute last Saturday (10-15) that might have caused CSX to arrange to run over the CP belt line? I often think that the city of Terre Haute should try to get CSX and CP to come to an arrangement to run some of CSX's through north-south trains around by the CP belt line, which has many fewer grade crossings than the downtown CSX main.
Does anyone know if CP has picked up some major shipments of new cars over the Latta Sub, and leased CSX locomotives to pull them? Or if there was some kind of accident or obstruction on the CSX north-south line in Terre Haute last Saturday (10-15) that might have caused CSX to arrange to run over the CP belt line? I often think that the city of Terre Haute should try to get CSX and CP to come to an arrangement to run some of CSX's through north-south trains around by the CP belt line, which has many fewer grade crossings than the downtown CSX main.
