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Eastern Railroad Discussion > 3 UPs leading NS 214 northboundDate: 06/25/11 18:49 3 UPs leading NS 214 northbound Author: ddavies After a couple months without much foreign power on NS in No VA, UP 7784 leads two 70Ms with 214 this afternoon. Nice chase on the B-line for three locations, plus one location on the H-line.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/11 15:15 by ddavies. Date: 06/25/11 20:44 Re: 3 UPs leading NS 214 northbound Author: DeutzHDL Can anyone shed some light why NS and CSX intermodal trains always have a bunch of empty slot's? I've never seen such weird trains all the empty's thrown in randomly.
Date: 06/25/11 20:50 Re: 3 UPs leading NS 214 northbound Author: ddavies Mostly because they are not unit trains, like the transcon double stacks. There are a lot of cuts in the trains that are delivered to different cities.
Date: 06/25/11 21:00 Re: 3 UPs leading NS 214 northbound Author: DeutzHDL Same thing out here on the trains i'm talking about. Trains are assembled and built and so each slot on the train sold and used. Single level slots where the top isn't loaded is rare any more. Empty cars and slots are inefficiencies in service
Date: 06/26/11 12:23 Re: 3 UPs leading NS 214 northbound Author: gmojim DeutzHDL Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Can anyone shed some light why NS and CSX > intermodal trains always have a bunch of empty > slot's? I've never seen such weird trains all the > empty's thrown in randomly. Don't have the volume to fill up the block for a certain ramp. gmojim |