Norfolk Southern Schedule

[Anonymous]

Can someone please suggest how to determine NS train movements on the tracks next to the Old Norcross Cafe' in Norcross, Georgia?

[Anonymous]

Can someone please suggest how to determine NS train movements on the tracks next to the Old Norcross Cafe' in Norcross, Georgia?

[oltmannd]

About the only trains you can count on there are the Crescents. They usually run pretty close to schedule. Time thru Norcross ought to be roughly the the midpoint of Gainsville and Atlanta on the public timetable. There are about a dozen other trains a day thru there, but they can be hours off the NS "schedules" for these frt trains. Best time of day I know is early morning. If you go trackside between 6 and 9AM, you should see 4-6 trains, one of which is the southbound Crescent.

[oltmannd]

About the only trains you can count on there are the Crescents. They usually run pretty close to schedule. Time thru Norcross ought to be roughly the the midpoint of Gainsville and Atlanta on the public timetable. There are about a dozen other trains a day thru there, but they can be hours off the NS "schedules" for these frt trains. Best time of day I know is early morning. If you go trackside between 6 and 9AM, you should see 4-6 trains, one of which is the southbound Crescent.

[wabash1]

There are about a dozen other trains a day thru there, but they can be hours off the NS "schedules" for these frt trains

Just exactly is the ns schedual? As I never knew the ns to run on any schedual. they seem to operate on a when we show up basis.

[wabash1]

There are about a dozen other trains a day thru there, but they can be hours off the NS "schedules" for these frt trains

Just exactly is the ns schedual? As I never knew the ns to run on any schedual. they seem to operate on a when we show up basis.

[oltmannd]

Since the advent of TOP (Thoroughbred Operating Plan) in late 2001, NS has been running a scheduled railroad. Not a movement authority/timetable schedule, but a schedule for operation and commercial planning and marketing. For example, train 118 is due to depart Gainesville GA at 6:15 PM. In the past week, it's departed anywhere from 3:40 PM to 7:45 PM. Typically, the closer to the train's origin, the closer to the advertized it will be.

[oltmannd]

Since the advent of TOP (Thoroughbred Operating Plan) in late 2001, NS has been running a scheduled railroad. Not a movement authority/timetable schedule, but a schedule for operation and commercial planning and marketing. For example, train 118 is due to depart Gainesville GA at 6:15 PM. In the past week, it's departed anywhere from 3:40 PM to 7:45 PM. Typically, the closer to the train's origin, the closer to the advertized it will be.

[wabash1]

Well if you say so.

[wabash1]

Well if you say so.

[Dad Howe]

I thought NS stood for "Nights and Saturdays." That's when they seem to run the most south of Cincy.

Dad Howe

[Dad Howe]

I thought NS stood for "Nights and Saturdays." That's when they seem to run the most south of Cincy.

Dad Howe

[Anonymous]

The beef I hear is no one wants to locate on NS . . .

"No Service"

[Anonymous]

The beef I hear is no one wants to locate on NS . . .

"No Service"

[wabash1]

You cant work if railfans are in the way asking questions and taking pictures so we work nights and weekends so we dont get disturbed.

[wabash1]

You cant work if railfans are in the way asking questions and taking pictures so we work nights and weekends so we dont get disturbed.