The shareholders at CSX need to remember this NS goes almost everyplace that CSX does except in FL and someplaces in NY state. If EHH drives away customers like his plan normally does over time NS will step into the void. I can think of several that will not put up with his BS right off the top of my head. Fed Ex UPS and JB Hunt Schiender and Swift. They will move their containers or flat out put them back on the road if they have to make a point to get the Great EHH to listen to them. He is going to be in for a wake up call when it comes to dealing with very large IM customers that demand Service and that the Mainlines be kept clear for their trains to get thru. If he fails to deliver they will start to scream at him and will either switch to NS or move them on their own.
CP and CN have both invested heavily in infrastructure improvment over the years.. there's no slash and burn. I read the reports.. I see the trains that go through my town.. apart from the hidious graffitti that passes for art to some, the railroads look better now than before. The track certainly looks well maintained. New locomotives.. can't remember the last time I even saw an older SD40-2 or GP40-2.. Maybe the slash and burn is happening elsewhere, but in my neck of the woods things are looking pretty sharp. EHH is most of all an agent of change, and people generally hate change even if the change is positive..
Can Harrison improve CSX Transportation?
Yes, analysts and industry insiders say, citing his success at Illinois Central, Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/03/03-ehh-analysis
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Well this is what the current management gets for their decision making over the past few years.
1. Trying to resolve their lack of manpower situation by furloughing more manpower. "No matter how many people we get rid of we still don't have enough to run our trains". All this while hundreds are furloughed. I've seen trains tied down in nearly every siding on a 100 mile piece of railroad waiting on a recrew to finish moving it.
2. Dispatching trains on a 28 hour day instead of 24. This takes this much longer for each of our customers to get their cars. This also lengthens trains to insane levels. Yes, lets run a 350 car manifests.
3. These lengthened trains are being run without the track infrastructure in place. Being doubled, tripled, and quadrupled out of yards, with times the originating crew getting the train ready and the recrew actually taking the train to its destination. This situation only got worse when it was cold.
4. Oh, found this out yesterday. All southbound trains coming out of my yard have to remove their own ground air and hang the EOT on the north end. Management has cut out the car inspectors, so now the conductor has to get a ride from the south to the north end to remove the air and connect the EOT. Oh, did I mention the wait time just to get a ride?
Y'all want anymore? I could keep going on?
Miningman The only way to make it palatable to you fellow's ( Americans) is to ditch the "Canadian" part,
The only way to make it palatable to you fellow's ( Americans) is to ditch the "Canadian" part,
*Shocked! Shocked to hear that.
Miningman, taking a cue from the DM&E, given the fact that it will be the Canadian Pacific area and the Eastern US that the combined railroad will serve, I will root for the Canadian Pacific & Eastern.
rockymidlandrr Oh, did I mention the wait time just to get a ride?
Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk?
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tree68 rockymidlandrr Oh, did I mention the wait time just to get a ride? Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk?
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Murphy Siding tree68 rockymidlandrr Oh, did I mention the wait time just to get a ride? Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk? Or jog- they've got a precision schedule to meet.
Or jog- they've got a precision schedule to meet.
Haha thats right. Let me jog to the other end of a 5000ft track with all their safety gear and radio strapped to me.
rockymidlandrr Murphy Siding tree68 rockymidlandrr Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk? Or jog- they've got a precision schedule to meet. Haha thats right. Let me jog to the other end of a 5000ft track with all their safety gear and radio strapped to me.
Murphy Siding tree68 rockymidlandrr Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk? Or jog- they've got a precision schedule to meet.
tree68 rockymidlandrr Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk?
rockymidlandrr
I believe jogging (running) is a violation of safety rules.
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BaltACD rockymidlandrr Murphy Siding tree68 rockymidlandrr Well, that's a waste of a driver and vehicle. Can't the conductor just walk? Or jog- they've got a precision schedule to meet. Haha thats right. Let me jog to the other end of a 5000ft track with all their safety gear and radio strapped to me. I believe jogging (running) is a violation of safety rules.
Oh yea thats right... Still getting used to that conductor thing again. Got settled in on the Engineer side for too long. Whelp, back to walking to the other end again just to hook up the EOT due to their Layoffs.
Look on the bright side, at least CSX doesn't have a steam program Hunter can shut down.
Hey this just in!!! Tell Harrison he is now Vice President and I'm the new Executive Director for CSX!!!
The railroad wants someone like me to come in and fix it, not hurt it.
ATSFGuyThe railroad wants someone like me to come in and fix it, not hurt it.
Yeah, but the investors (the short-term variety) want cash. Who cares what kind of shape the railroad ends up in?
So the Investors just want money and don't give a damn about the railroad at all?
How terribly sad
ATSFGuySo the Investors just want money and don't give a damn about the railroad at all? How terribly sad
Harrison isn't final until the shareholders vote. I can guarantee it won't be unamiously in his favor.
There are a lot of CSX shareholders that remember the last time an activist investment group came in and tried to force them to make changes a couple years ago. They may not even let EHH take the reigns based on what happened then. They are still trying to get that taste out of their mouths.
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