QUOTE: Originally posted by paulstecyna21 at 6:00am this morning i saw a ns freight with these engines ns, up, ns is it what most of you said?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas Or it could be paying back or accumulating "horse power hours" Run through agreements are typicaly between "city pairs" on a particular route that goes through two or more railroads territory (tracks). Units accumulating or paying back horsepower hours can show up anywhere in any service as the power desk sees fit. Railroads, especially the class ones, are always borrowing power from eachother. The way they keep things even is called "horse power hours". For instance lets say UP borrows a NS SD40-2, An SD40-2 is 3000hp and will be counted as 3000 horse power hours for every hour it spends on UP. If it's there for a day the UP would owe NS 72,000 HP hours. Now say somewhere else NS has borrowed a UP AC6000 for a day. Sience the AC6000 is 6000 hp it will accumulate 144,000 hours in the same time. So now there is a debt owed to NS of 72,000 hp hours. Each railroad keeps track of the balance between them and each one of the other railroads and if the balance gets to be too much, the oweing railroad will send some units to the owed railroad to balance things out. They usually use there own power for this but they could also lease units from a leasor or another railroad to pay back hp hours owed. They could send the owed railroad a whole bunch of units to pay off there debt quickly or more economicaly they send a few units to the owed railroad and it takes a lot longer. In that case a foreign unit might be roaming around the owed railroads property for a while and could end up in the farthest corners of there system. They are typicaly treated as if they were there own units and would assign them as they would any other power (though sometime the power desks will keep them in a certain geographic area or service)
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QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed Personally I think he is having fun PPing on people older then him. JMHO though
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QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas [#ditto] Well said James.
QUOTE: Originally posted by paulstecyna21 that is not true
QUOTE: Originally posted by cpbloom The more I read this topic the more I begin to wonder who the real fools are here. It sounds to me like he is just leading you all along to see how long you will play this game of "respond to my ridiculous posts".
QUOTE: The other day we had to pick up a Conrail-painted NS unit at Kalamazoo's Botsford Yard because our P42 died; we tied it on the front of the 28. I didn't want to say anything before, knowing how rumors get started... but we did it to show everyone out here that NS is buying Amtrak and then repainting all the equipment French Blue.
QUOTE: AS CEO of Norfolk Southern, Paul ,I will tell you that we have already taken over EVERY RAILROAD IN THE WORLD, but ya know, mums the word.
QUOTE: paul your right the union pacific and bnsf are trying to buy out the ns and the csx railroads . they wont tell you up front and it is against company policy to say anything. with in 5 years there will be only one railroad running coast to coast made of 2 railroads the bn and the up. they will keep the markings of their home frieght line but will run under a new name. also in breaking news the congress has passed a bill to run amtrak nationally and there is a 2.5billion dollar grant to lay high speed rail from L.A. callifornia to hawaii. it will be cheaper to take the train instead of flying and to keep cost down they will be using mexican labor. it will be all electric and with work ongoing 24 hrs aday the job should be done in 3 years. dont tell anyone this is top secreate
QUOTE: Well, to all of you doubters. I sent my own letter to the NS and they said that they weren't gonna answer Paul's letter until the 32nd of March. Here's what they told me. There is NO Merger planned with any other Rail company....NONE! What they did say is that they were planning on merging with Tyco and Mattel. The merger will result in entirely new train consists. The new NS Tyco trains will all feature "real locomotive sounds," whistles and bells and real smoke coming out of the exhaust stack. The new trains will be powered by 1,000 AA batteries and have cabbage patch kids at the throttle. The new paint scheme will resemble the old NS scheme withthe addition of a big happy clown face on the front of every motor. There will be a sweepstake to be an engineer for the day. The official game pieces will be in specially marked boxes of sugarsmacks cereal, many will enter, few will win......good luck.
QUOTE: Originally posted by paulstecyna21 thank you
QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 paul your right the union pacific and bnsf are trying to buy out the ns and the csx railroads . they wont tell you up front and it is against company policy to say anything. with in 5 years there will be only one railroad running coast to coast made of 2 railroads the bn and the up. they will keep the markings of their home frieght line but will run under a new name. also in breaking news the congress has passed a bill to run amtrak nationally and there is a 2.5billion dollar grant to lay high speed rail from L.A. callifornia to hawaii. it will be cheaper to take the train instead of flying and to keep cost down they will be using mexican labor. it will be all electric and with work ongoing 24 hrs aday the job should be done in 3 years. dont tell anyone this is top secreate
QUOTE: Originally posted by paulstecyna21 all right i will acept what everybody has said but i like to do my own investigating my self that is why i sent the letter to the company.
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