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News Wire: New CSX strategy dooms Ohio and North Carolina terminals

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Posted by Norm48327 on Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:46 AM

BaltACD
Without the tunnel improvement,s container ships will start bypassing PoB for Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Portsmouth, Philadelphia & New York. Ports are competing against each other for cargo. Baltimore owes its history to being a port.

Balt,

Whether we like it or not many decisions are the result of pure politics or what those pols think people want to hear or will benefit them.

The "What's in it for me", or does it favor my district has long been the mantra. The pols are more interested in the  "what's in it for me" part.

Impress your constituents with BS (IOW, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance  baffle them with BS and they think you are working to better your  lives by bringing jobs or whatever. Regardless of their political leanings all politicians  are fertilizer spreaders with manure straight from the barn or pasture.

Norm


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Posted by greyhounds on Sunday, November 5, 2017 12:02 PM

daveklepper
Not along the South Shore Main Line. There are places where double stacks are handled under the main-line catenary, on the same track as the passenger service. At Kensington, double stacks do cross tracks with IC catenary.

OK, what double stacks are being operated on the South Shore and why are they there?  I don't doubt what you're saying, I just want a better understanding.

"By many measures, the U.S. freight rail system is the safest, most efficient and cost effective in the world." - Federal Railroad Administration, October, 2009. I'm just your average, everyday, uncivilized howling "anti-government" critic of mass government expenditures for "High Speed Rail" in the US. And I'm gosh darn proud of that.
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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, November 5, 2017 2:42 PM

Politics or not!

Industries no longer existing in Baltimore
1. Automobile Assembly - GM Plant gone
2. Steel - Bethlehem Steel and its successors
3. Shipbuilding & Repair - Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock + Beth Steel
4. FMC - Rocket Fuel (among other industrial chemicals) plant closed

And Lord knows how many lesser concerns

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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