Not much info here reading the article leaves me in the dark. This is not tabloid journalism here with unnamed sources. I have looked on other rail news sites and have not seen anything else concrete on this.
They've already begun the process of re-routing traffic away from the terminal, and have begun to discontinue those lanes mentioned in the article. There is nothing to suggest otherwise.
If "internal sources" were named, well then they'd probably be fired.
Sometimes you just have to accept anonymity in journalism. Now there are times when it is overdone and bad stories get out there, but I more than trust Trains to have good stuff given their huge network and long-standing commitment for and track record of good reporting.
This is happening. North Baltimore's train-to-train lifts, the terminal's bread-and-butter, are for low-margin traffic, which Harrison would clearly rather see drayed to more centralized locations so that the railroad doesn't break intermodal trains up into basically loose carloading with containers. Those cranes are expensive and acutally kinda slow. Intermodal works best when velocity is high, and when you stop the train to swap around a bunch of boxes, that velocity plummets.
And Harrison? Well he likes his train velocity and higher margins.
We just cut 100+ CSX domestic intemodal lanes out of FL, SC, GA, & TN from our IMC offerings as they are being cancelled this weekend. Lanes include both local CSX and UP origins/destinations.
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