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Are cars moving any better on CSX now?

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Posted by jeffhergert on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:46 PM

BaltACD

 

 
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oltmannd

The good places to do block swaps often don't have yard air.  They're more often just a "wide spot in the road".  It's not do or die, just one more thing that needs managed. 

That could be of some expense.  Electric, compressor, piping & probably at both ends of a siding ?  $10k at least for each installation ?

 

x 10 at least and probably closer to x 20.

 

 

Or use rental mobile compressor units and flexible hoses.  That's what Uncle Pete did (and does) at certain points.  Some places have since received permanent air plants, mostly at yards that originate trains.  That way the car men can do the air tests without the power on.  

A couple of places, one which has since received a complete air plant, are located outside yards where incoming trains would cut off the inbound power and take it to the house.  The train is put on the yard air to maintain the air slip.  (The air slip is placed in a mail box for the outbound crew.)  The hostlers or outbound crew then put on the outbound power later.  

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:42 PM

This weeks STB posted numbers are out.  

CSX basically treaded water Devil  Train speed and dwell off just a tick.  Waycross really bad - holding cars for FL most likely.  Cars delayed flat.  Cars on line down a bit.

All things considered, not awful, but they are still in the ditch.

NS's numbers aren't anything to write home about.  They still can't get the south end of the RR up to speed after closing the hump at Chattanooga.  Running with one wheel on the shoulder....

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, September 21, 2017 7:59 PM

oltmannd
NS's numbers aren't anything to write home about.  They still can't get the south end of the RR up to speed after closing the hump at Chattanooga.  Running with one wheel on the shoulder....

Bold plans are great.  As long as they encompass more than one 'bold action' and support the bold action with thousands of supporting elements.  CSX and NS at Chattanooga appear to have made the bold plans of closing humps, without any of the supporting elements which makes the bold plan a humungos mess.

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Posted by oltmannd on Friday, September 22, 2017 12:19 AM

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NS's numbers aren't anything to write home about.  They still can't get the south end of the RR up to speed after closing the hump at Chattanooga.  Running with one wheel on the shoulder....

 

Bold plans are great.  As long as they encompass more than one 'bold action' and support the bold action with thousands of supporting elements.  CSX and NS at Chattanooga appear to have made the bold plans of closing humps, without any of the supporting elements which makes the bold plan a humungos mess.

 

Yep.  Many issues, apparently.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, September 22, 2017 5:35 PM

Hunter has changed trains on the A&WP sub.  The trains have much more operating power than a few weeks ago. 

Oltmann:  with both CSX and NS closing Chattanooga humps does that cause cross contamination for interchanges ?  1+1= -1 ? 

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Posted by oltmannd on Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:21 AM

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Oltmann:  with both CSX and NS closing Chattanooga humps does that cause cross contamination for interchanges ?  1+1= -1 ? 

Probably not.  NS stopped doing car classification work there, but is still flat switching the local and interchange traffic as well as doing a lot of block swapping there.  Chattanooga is a good, logical place for block swapping. 

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Posted by oltmannd on Friday, September 29, 2017 9:39 PM
What the "real" (STB EP 724) numbers show is some modest improvement. 

Dwell down a small chunk. Mostly due to Waycross recovering. Willard nearly normal. Other humps still hurting a bit.

Train speed up a nice chunk. Still much below where CSX was last year this time.

Car on line up a bit. Not good.

Cars delayed 24 hours - flat.

RR still in the ditch, edging up a bit once again.

 

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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 7:36 AM

Number out last Friday.  CSX has plateaued.  Train speed speed down a tick. Dwell up a tick.  Cars on line up a tick. 

All still below last May.  

On the other hand, NS has been slipping and now has dwell and speed below CSX, and well below their 2013 levels when things were running smoothly.  Over the years, NS has tradtionally been a tick better than CSX on speed and dwell.

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