BaltACD Deggesty Balt, do the Californi-bound reefers go through Pensacola? Upon further review, I think they stayed with the Cincinnati cars to Fairburn Ramp at Atlanta and were set off and put on one of the intermodal trains out of Fairburn, I believe to New Orleans and then UP beyond.
Deggesty Balt, do the Californi-bound reefers go through Pensacola?
Upon further review, I think they stayed with the Cincinnati cars to Fairburn Ramp at Atlanta and were set off and put on one of the intermodal trains out of Fairburn, I believe to New Orleans and then UP beyond.
Before EHH took over at CSX, I used to see 5-10 Tropicana cars come thru Tallahassee headed west on the morning (usually) intermodal train for (I assume) New Orleans. The returning cars would be on eastbound intermodal/autorack trains. Since EHH took over, sightings are more erratic but I still see some.
Off topic, CSX now seems to be tacking some carload traffic on the front of the intermodal trains; haven't seen any open hoppers on these trains, so don't know if the tacked-on cars are loaded. A year or two ago, and further back, CSX would sometimes run fairly short (50-75 cars) autorack trains eastbound, but haven't seen them lately. Almost never see westbound autoracks thru here; assume they go from Jacksonville to Waycross for distribution.
I don't recall the train symbol but this train passed through Hulsey in Atlanta every day
Lately, thee seem to be an increasing number of BNSF Reefer Cars ( With the Transicold, 'nose' units on one end). BNSF connects with the Southern Transcon here, south of Wichita (Mulvane), and on the 'east' end towards Topeka, and Kansas City area(Gardiner,Ks/ Intermodal Facility).
Seems that many of the 'Merchandise/Mixed' trains' are populated with at least a half dozen reefers, some times more. TOFC Reefer trailers are pretty well represented; they seem to have more and more, coming from the west with their reefer units running ( at night, the led's on their controls are very evident).
DeggestyBalt, do the Californi-bound reefers go through Pensacola?
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Balt, do the California-bound reefers go through Pensacola?
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As of the time I retired in December, Tropicana has 3 destinations, Greenville, NJ is the primary destination for 'The Juice Train'. A block of Trop business is separated at Jacksonville and is destined to a facility in Cincinnati. Another block is separated at Jacksonville and is destined to City of Industry, CA. Needless to say the empties are returned by reverse route.
I saw a double stack train come through Nashville TN headed south, Chattanooga probably. This is not an unusual event except that it had seven Tropicana Reefers on the end. I thought those only ran on the east coast. I had never seen any Tropicana reefers come through here before.Anybody know what those reefers were doing here?
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