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News Wire: Shippers: CSX making uneven progress at improving service

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:11 AM

WASHINGTON — Rail service, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. How CSX Transportation’s service stacks up in the wake this summer’s operational challenges depends on whom you ask. Nearly two-thirds of shippers at the North...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/10/04-csx-shippers

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 1:11 PM

Interesting that the coal shippers say they are seeing better service, since EHH said coal was essentially dead...

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 4:36 PM

Brian,

IIRC, there was also a lot of complaining about CN when Harrison was CEO there. I was privy to inside information on a low level and the mantra was CN was in it only for the long haul and short haul customers be damned because CN, at that point, did not want to deal with anything less than what were basically unit trains from point A to point B.

Scheduled railroading is great as long as cars show up in time to be hooked up to the next train out.Hunter doesn't care if they show up or not.

 

Norm


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