Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Port Road Congestion

Good Evening:

I had a chance to go down to Perryville, MD today and there were 2 empty coal trains waiting to go west to Harrisburg and a manifest train (36A?) waiting to go out onto the Northeast Corridor. Were there problems on the Port Road today between Perryville and Harrisburg?

Thank you in advance.

I loaded flat cars today at Columbia, there was mention of more than 5 trains down there waiting, nothing that I know of happening on the Port Road though, might have been something on amtrak.

I know Amtrak generally has windows for freight trains to run. Having worked the H4A out of Abrams, we usually wait awhile before Amtrak can run us. The NEC, I believe has an overnight window until 5am when freight is able to run.

There no longer is an official window for freight on Amtrak. They will and have run trains in daylight but it takes longer just because there is more traffic on the NEC in daylight.

MH2198 Wrote:
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> I know Amtrak generally has windows for freight
> trains to run. Having worked the H4A out of
> Abrams, we usually wait awhile before Amtrak can
> run us. The NEC, I believe has an overnight window
> until 5am when freight is able to run.