by NYCS
I know this is quite vague and nearly impossible to determine on a micro level, but I'm wondering if anyone has noticed any trends as to which cars coming into Fresh Pond are "usual customers" at a repeat consignee?
Let me clarify what I mean, for the purposes of example:
1. We know the USWX flats with green MSW containers are headed to WM on Varick Ave. along the Bushwick Branch.
2. We know CDEX Construction Debris gondolas are headed out to Coastal.
3. Recently I learned that most (if not all) FGLK boxcars are carrying paperboard to Rock-Tenn (formerly Southern Container).
4. Many (if not all) of the GATX stone hoppers are unloaded in Maspeth.
5. LPG tankers are most likely headed to Paraco (well, ever since NYA cut service to Pulver).
6. The pressurized Trinity 5660 covered hoppers (major flour haulers) started appearing once BRT opened the flour transload.
etc., etc., etc....
Wondering if anyone else has noticed any patterns going on, and we could keep an active discussion going about which reporting marks (maybe even specific cars) are spotted at specific customers... and we could all learn in the process. Cars such as centerbeam lumber cars, ARMN reefers, plastic pellet hoppers can have a variety of customers, so these would be harder to make sense of. What about all the EEC cars coming onto the island? Recently I've heard of the large BNSF "icicle" reefers also making landfall, anyone know where they are spotted at? Just any patterns you know of, matching cars/reporting marks to designated consignees, trends and patterns, etc. I think it would be a fun topic for discussion. Even something like "Customer X usually receives 60' High Cube TTX boxcars" would give us new information. I open up the floor...
Let me clarify what I mean, for the purposes of example:
1. We know the USWX flats with green MSW containers are headed to WM on Varick Ave. along the Bushwick Branch.
2. We know CDEX Construction Debris gondolas are headed out to Coastal.
3. Recently I learned that most (if not all) FGLK boxcars are carrying paperboard to Rock-Tenn (formerly Southern Container).
4. Many (if not all) of the GATX stone hoppers are unloaded in Maspeth.
5. LPG tankers are most likely headed to Paraco (well, ever since NYA cut service to Pulver).
6. The pressurized Trinity 5660 covered hoppers (major flour haulers) started appearing once BRT opened the flour transload.
etc., etc., etc....
Wondering if anyone else has noticed any patterns going on, and we could keep an active discussion going about which reporting marks (maybe even specific cars) are spotted at specific customers... and we could all learn in the process. Cars such as centerbeam lumber cars, ARMN reefers, plastic pellet hoppers can have a variety of customers, so these would be harder to make sense of. What about all the EEC cars coming onto the island? Recently I've heard of the large BNSF "icicle" reefers also making landfall, anyone know where they are spotted at? Just any patterns you know of, matching cars/reporting marks to designated consignees, trends and patterns, etc. I think it would be a fun topic for discussion. Even something like "Customer X usually receives 60' High Cube TTX boxcars" would give us new information. I open up the floor...
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