by newpylong
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BobbyT wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:20 pm So at this point what operational changes has CSX made beyond extending 426/427 to Portland and what looks to be the creation of a Lawrence block? Have they done any re-blocking out of Portland? It seems like the Ayer warehouse Paper/pulp traffic may have been shifted over to POED, perhaps in an effort to expedite 427 across the railroad.It looks like they are going to try running M426 on an alternate P&W/ Pan Am schedule. One day it will be a solid P&W train and the next it will be all Pan Am's with the P&W train having regular non access engines.
F74265A wrote:So an almost immediate cut in service to northern New EnglandBut aren't the two main trains that 426/427 feed into (PORU, POWA) also every-other-day operation? So, if done right, this won't actually impact the delivery of cars to customers in any material way. Come to think of it, running 426/427 every day, when the trains that it feeds are run every second day, kind of doesn't make sense... right? (They can sync up PORU and POWA so they leave on the same day, if that's not already the practice.)
F74265A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:45 am So an almost immediate cut in service to northern New EnglandIf you say so. In reality, not really.
Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:02 pm So Mr. Newpy, Topper "wants back in the game" after he "bolted to the paddock"?.Maybe, time will tell. It's just a rumor until it's not.
And this; even after he knew that 49 some miles of "The Route of the Flying Yankee" is FRA Class 1?
Further of concern is Mr. Barlow's immediate suggesting that Chessie will only run "one a day" to Rigby. My question is that is all the present level of business needs OR is this some limit a passenger train agency (MBTA; NNEPRA) has imposed?