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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Thursday, September 5, 2019 11:31 AM

How much of the drop is due to the economy, and how much to customers forced away by PSR?  

Don't think you'll find that analysis anyplace public (if at all - doesn't hew to the PSR party line, methinks).

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Posted by Euclid on Thursday, September 5, 2019 11:29 AM

BaltACD
 
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Tariff's are working. 

They will soon be coming home to roost.  I think it will be quite a surprise.

 

Only to the huge one.

 

It will be a surprise to him because he apparently believes that we will not feel any sense of distress from destoying a giant manufacturing economy.  He has certainly been told that by the architect of this mad plan. 

But there will also be a very big surprise to the American people who have not been paying attention.  The effect of tariffs is a delayed effect.  So it is easy to conclude that the tariffs are not working because we see no effect.  So the call is for more tariffs.   

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, September 5, 2019 9:50 AM

Euclid
 
BaltACD

Tariff's are working. 

They will soon be coming home to roost.  I think it will be quite a surprise.

Only to the huge one.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Euclid on Thursday, September 5, 2019 8:00 AM

BaltACD

Tariff's are working.

 

They will soon be coming home to roost.  I think it will be quite a surprise.

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Posted by JPS1 on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 9:44 PM

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I grew up in the Juniata River Valley and spent considerable quality time in my younger days swimming, fishing and canoeing on the Juniata.

Its harder to get down and back up the river bank now that I’ve entered my senior years but; I still make it a point to go swimming in the Juniata when we go north each summer. 

A close friend's family had a cottage along the Juniata near where the Raystown joins it.  I spent many a summer day canoeing and swimming in the Juniata River.  
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Posted by Juniata Man on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 7:00 PM

JPS1

 

 
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 NS is attributing the furloughs to their precision scheduled nonsense because that supports what they are trying to serve Wall Street. 

 

Are you the Juniata Man because you are from Altoona or somewhere along the Juniata River?

 

I grew up in the Juniata River Valley and spent considerable quality time in my younger days swimming, fishing and canoeing on the Juniata.

Its harder to get down and back up the river bank now that I’ve entered my senior years but; I still make it a point to go swimming in the Juniata when we go north each summer.

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Posted by JPS1 on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 6:35 PM

Juniata Man
 NS is attributing the furloughs to their precision scheduled nonsense because that supports what they are trying to serve Wall Street. 

Are you the Juniata Man because you are from Altoona or somewhere along the Juniata River?

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 5:46 PM

Tariff's are working.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Juniata Man on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 5:25 PM

I suspect the decline in volume is a contributing factor to the recently announced furloughs.  Of course; NS is attributing the furloughs to their precision scheduled nonsense because that supports what they are trying to serve Wall Street.

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Posted by switch7frg on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 4:46 PM

Could this event be the reason  for the 200 or more lay-off??

Y6bs evergreen in my mind

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Freight carloads continue to slump
Posted by charlie hebdo on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 7:57 PM

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-rail-volumes-continue-their-drop/amp

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