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roberttosh wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:48 pm With the Auto operation at East Brookfield more or less taking up part of the former mainline and making it in essence a single track railroad from CP 60 to CP 64, I wonder if they would try to re-install the third track at that location so they could make it true double track again and get around that 4 mile bottleneck?It's only double track from CP 57 to CP 64...single CP 48 to CP 57 and CP 64 to CP 79
BandA wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:48 pm Does PAR have one region or more? What is CSX' region? I assume they will need all the MOW employees and then some for upgrades. Or maybe they have better more automated TLMs, etc. With increased velocity they would need fewer employees, unless business increases then they will need the same. Plus takes a long time to train. Someone mentioned the risks earlier that they would consolidate their repair shop away from Rigby?For all intents and purposes it's one Division however for the old heads with prior (B&M, MEC, PT) rights there are those seniority districts. By now the amount of guys having those rights is probably getting down there compared to when I was there. I was trained by 100% B&M old timers with said rights. The last guy on the roster to have those rights is (a great) Conductor named Arthur Martin who typically works Deerfield. His in service date was the late 80s AFAIK.
Since it is winter, how do CSX & PAR compare on snow fighting?
BandA wrote:Since it is winter, how do CSX & PAR compare on snow fighting?I am not sure about CSX, but it seems that they mainly use ballast regulators. As for Pan Am, they rely on ballast regulators as well, but the eastern end of the railroad has had several large storms in recent years which warrant the use of Russell's. And given the fact that in recent years, CSX has scrapped the majority of the plow/spreader fleet, I am not holding my breath on seeing any CSX plow trains.