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Hottest Train on CSX

Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.

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Re: Hottest Train on CSX

  by Conrail4evr
 
Q100 and Q153, the old UPS bullet trains. Q090 and Q091 take a close second place.

Re: Hottest Train on CSX

  by fw2008
 
QB 52.32 wrote:
railman616 wrote:Hi
Hottest train on the B & A is the L170 UPS onThursday Night. It splits off of Q100 in Selkirk and is due in Worcester by 12:00am. Dispatcher clears everything out of its way and helds any westbound freight that might be running late. Q420 if it gets out on time has a great run as it sees green all the way to Worcester just to stay out of the way.
Regards,
Railman
L170 and Q100 out of Selkirk on Thursday must be handling that west coast UPS traffic for New England and New York that was sped up a few years ago --- LA to the East Coast packages picked up in L.A. Monday and delivered on the East Coast Friday. Would be my guess that this traffic is the hottest on CSX.
Would that UPS train be the same one that was named "TVLA" on CR?

FW

Re: Hottest Train on CSX

  by QB 52.32
 
No, TVLA was westbound out of N. Bergen while these trains are eastbound into NY/NJ and New England.
TVLA, though, was designed for a "hot" NY/NJ-west coast UPS schedule, but I believe the traffic running on this eastbound "bullet" schedule is the hottest of UPS's hot traffic.
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