blue streak 1IMO this getting in and out of yards is a red herring.
Huh?
And how are more car inspectors going to make a difference in yarding a train?
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IMO this getting in and out of yards is a red herring. PSR has allowed for not enough yard enployees to gets the trains out, Hire enough car knockers, hostlers, and portable air compressors to do the class 1 brake tests so as soon as road crew shows the train can leave. Road crew does not spend so much time getting train ready and that sometimes alone will enable crew to finish run and not go HOS on the law.
More car knockes will allow train to get in yard quicker and be broken up quicker also saving T&E on duty times.
tree68 Murphy Siding Isn't that true for most every big business? You'd think so, although one major retailer doesn't seem to be getting the message that not everyone likes to self-checkout. It's been well demonstrated that if you don't take care of your customers, they'll find someone who will. It was William Henry Vanderbilt, however, who famously stated, "the public be damned..."
Murphy Siding Isn't that true for most every big business?
You'd think so, although one major retailer doesn't seem to be getting the message that not everyone likes to self-checkout.
It's been well demonstrated that if you don't take care of your customers, they'll find someone who will.
It was William Henry Vanderbilt, however, who famously stated, "the public be damned..."
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CMStPnP Ouch..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luXIMoyJkPk
Ouch.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luXIMoyJkPk
Despite the title of the thread, this video shows Chairman Oberman talking about Trip Optimizer, not car metering. Two totally different things.
I was not watching the hearings, but I seem to recall reading that there were several witnesses who testified to the effect that a.) the time to get over the road wasn't the problem, just the time to get in and out of yards, and b.) CSX (?) tried removing throttle restrictions in some places as an experiment and found it made no difference in throughput. If those things are true, it's really hard to see how turning off Trip Optimizer would provide the kind of immediate capacity benefit that Oberman is looking for.
Car metering, on the other hand, IS something that can provide the immediate, system-wide benefit that Oberman is looking for. Reducing car inventories (to a point) increases system throughput by reducing congestion, just like the ramp monitoring we use on freeways here in the Twin Cities (see https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop14020/sec1.htm).
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Murphy SidingIsn't that true for most every big business?
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Hey!! I was just mocking any supposition that "fair play" might intercede, so isn't "mocking my mock" similar to a double negative?
Convicted One I guess their response might be "Hey, we no more run our railroad for the benefit of consumers than we do for the towns we pass through" ?
I guess their response might be "Hey, we no more run our railroad for the benefit of consumers than we do for the towns we pass through" ?
PSR doesn't want to add employees it wants to cut them. Time to cut the Bean Counters - think they know the cost of everything and they know value of nothing, especially a fully functional operation.
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