B&M 1227 wrote:hearing rumors of the ns office car train heading to ayer this friday... stay tuned!Are NS execs bringing their check book?
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B&M 1227 wrote:hearing rumors of the ns office car train heading to ayer this friday... stay tuned!Are NS execs bringing their check book?
johnpbarlow wrote:Exactly my thought as well when I saw it was the whole train.B&M 1227 wrote:hearing rumors of the ns office car train heading to ayer this friday... stay tuned!Are NS execs bringing their check book?
gokeefe wrote:Apparently CSX has decided to partially bail out on upstate New York ... I'm guessing this will result in some significant bteaffic gains for NS/PAS.Ah, "precision railroading" again. Would have thought with the passing of EHH they would have woken up. Though thats the difference between being run by a Hedge Fund and railroaders (NS).
Cut and paste not available for wrote but the short version of the story is that CSX wants everything pre-blocked (and likely isn't willing to adjust the joint rate).
CSX will be consolidating UMAX service at Worcester, MA.
gokeefe wrote:This is total insanity. Dumping premium service customers and volume in a growing market.Per the Freightwaves article at the URL below, I don't think the detail of the change in UP-CSX intermodal terminal pairings are as draconian as the headlines suggest:
I hope NS and Pan Am find a way to take it all.
...In a customer notice sent last week, the line cut 197 of 301 origin-destination pairs provided through network interconnects between the two. Among the metro destinations affected are Baltimore, Charleston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Portsmouth, Savannah, Nashville and Columbus....
...A CSX spokesperson says the changes were made in consultation with UP and that customers were notified well in advance of the changes. It said that many of the impacted lanes had very low volumes with 67 of them having zero freight last year....
...“Despite . . . bluster from shippers with respect to impending service disruptions, we believe actual implications are minimal, while being highly favorable for the efficiency of CSX's intermodal network,” Deutsche Bank said. The bank estimates up to one-third of the lanes being closed have no traffic at all, with the most dense lane having relatively small amounts of container traffic per day. ...” Moreover, there can be “incremental efficiencies to the carriers intermodal networks with traffic destined for Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas now interchanging through Memphis versus Chicago prior, which we estimate reduces distance traveled by about 700 miles....”