by Conrail Cleveland East
Since the CN takeover,how has the traffic been between Effingham and Chicago?
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emd_SD_60 wrote:Whatever happened to the double-stack trains IC used to run? .
emd_SD_60 wrote:I haven't seen any so far, at least on the main line that is. Because all I see are manifests and grain trains at that time. Although, there is a line that begins at Edgewood, Illinois and heads south, and joins the mainline just west of Fulton, Kentucky, just right on the Kentucky/Tennessee state line. That must be the line the southbound/northbound intermodals travel on. I saw intermodals almost everyday on the mainline, at least up until the merger. CN must have had something to do with the re-routing.They do indeed use the "cut-off", a.k.a the Bluford sub. The Bluford sub runs from Edgewood (MP 41.6) to North Siding (MP 40.7)
emd_SD_60 wrote:I hope there are plans to run intermodals on the mainline again, because I am sure getting tired of grain trains, that's for sure.By mainline, I'm assuming you mean the Centralia-sub? Met Q-194 late Thursday evening, on the Bluford-sub. The dispr. had the pig-train waiting north of Akin Jct for the southbound Paducah/Duquoin local to make a pick-up at Rust Jct. The IC isn't really serious about their intermodal trains. They're often underpowered and holding them for a rag-tag local proves it.
ic9623 wrote:Most of the double stack traffic was off the UPs former SP traffic. This was when they ran 3 GP 40s. Most of it ended when UP pulled it back to home rails. I cannot remember the year and any more specifics. I really enjoyed watching these monsters! They generally were huge trains.I didn't know that, I thought it was 100% IC traffic... Probably most of the double-stack traffic nowadays is CN I guess.