Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX Atlanta downgrade

I am hearing that the CSX Atlanta hump will be closed.  Several trains will be discontinued or combined.  Other remaining trains will set off and pick up in Atlanta.  EHH wants at least 1500 cars per day on any hump yard.  Apparently hump yards are expensive to operate.  I would expect Waycross, Nashville and Hamlet to pick up some of the yard work.  Engine facility downgraded as well.

Yes, there are multiple threads on TO discussing this.

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The funny thing is, when they had 2 hump job and 3 bowl jobs working each shift with FULL crews, we were pulling 2100 cars a day out of the bowl, and still got an 30-60min early quit.  All the jobs helped each other to move the cars.  

KV1guy Wrote:
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> The funny thing is, when they had 2 hump job and 3
> bowl jobs working each shift with FULL crews, we
> were pulling 2100 cars a day out of the bowl, and
> still got an 30-60min early quit.  All the jobs
> helped each other to move the cars.  


Motivated crews can do a lot. We used to pay our service team $250 bonus each for an error free monthly cycle. And another $250 for a month without a charge back. Money well spent.

Guess what happened when our new owner scrapped this?

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