Up until recently, BNSF and CSX seemed to have plenty of runthrough manifests in Chicago - SELGAL, CSXKCK, and so on. However, it's recently been pointed out to me that almost all of these have stopped running, but similar trains to/from NS and CN are still regular runners. The only CSX one I can find running regularly is the M-GALSEL, continuing as Q384 to Willard/Selkirk (it seems to bounce back and forth between those two every time someone in CSX HQ sneezes).
Are there any other Chicago runthroughs between the two these days? If not, how is CSX getting the traffic to BNSF? Surely they aren't sending it all via the IHB/BRC, and sending it as piecemeal transfers seems odd as Cicero Yard isn't really suited to handling large quantities of manifest.
Are there any other Chicago runthroughs between the two these days? If not, how is CSX getting the traffic to BNSF? Surely they aren't sending it all via the IHB/BRC, and sending it as piecemeal transfers seems odd as Cicero Yard isn't really suited to handling large quantities of manifest.