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I think TRAINS and Tom Murray did a good job of providing an overview of what's happening here in the northeast and the weakest of the Big Four. <br /> <br />I do believe that the thinking in Jacksonville was that "If only we could just get Conrail's New England/New York Area to Chicago/St. Louis intermodal franchise and the New Jersey's Chemical Coast we would be sitting on easy street" But they did count on David Goode of NS to have the b*lls to put up a good (no pun intended) fight. Never underestimate your potential adversary! <br /> <br />I was really surprise to learn on how much of CSX's revenue (55%) is good old carload traffic. That really blew me away!. At the time of the Split the thinking around here in the NYC area is that NS was the boxcar RR while CSX was the intermodal RR now it seems the reverse to some extent is now true. <br /> <br />Though I heard this analysis maybe once or twice Tom Murray is the first one I have seen put it in print for all to see. The point I am referring is the fact that Conrail was primarily a high density multitrack mainline intermodal RR and the pre-CR CSX was primarily a low density(in terms of capacity) single track network. Definetly a clash of operating cultures in the making. <br /> <br />When Ron Conway and his management team got fired a few years back I thought that he got a raw deal but I see now that the the old pre-CR CSX could not be operated like the old Conrail system. For one thing it was an open secret around here that unless you were a big multicar per day customer Conrail did everything to get rid of (your) carload traffic. <br /> <br />One thing I wi***his new CSX will do is to redouble track and clearance for double stack traffic the B&O "Royal Blue" route between New Jersey and Wash DC and completely redouble track, not just long sidings, the old Atlantic Coast Line main between Richmond and Jacksonville. And also keep the parallel Seaboard Airline main in good shpe as relief valve and detour route due to the heavy occurance of hurricanes in the area. Then CSX will be in fact a genuine alternative for I95 truck traffic and not the "make-believe" hype they put in company press releases. <br /> <br />Good job, Tom Murray and TRAINS!!! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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