Eastern Railroad Discussion > Cincinnati CSX problems

Since CSX is now running Louisville trains up the L&I, then east on the B&O, traffic seems to bottleneck at Oklahoma.
Anyone care to comment?

Paul Ramer
Cincinnati, OH

As for Cincy, you have to run those trains through the yard vs going the other way you keep most of them on main track.  That will slow things down.  I've no clue if the current running speeds things up in Louisville or not.
 

Doing a lot better that I anticipated.  Q560 lingers the longest at Oklahmoa, but that is by design/why that land barge runs that way.  Yesterday's monster had it's power pulled up tight on home signal at CP Oklahoma and was only in clear of Idaho Street by about 4 cars.  Oklahoma is MP 1.57 (on parallel CIND) Idaho Street is MP 4.49,  so you are talking at least 15,000 fet of train.   Q142 and Q272 seem to get through as good as can be expected.  As do the Sedamsville Job and St Joe switcher.  Plus you have 1 to 2 empty rack trains go west on Indiana Sub and drop train at Idaho Street for CIND to pick via the new connection.  Speaking of CIND,they run atlest 6 moves a day through the Oklahoma track usually without crippeling delays.

For those unfamiliar with area, CP Oklahoma is located on the west side of downtown Cincinanti and is a point where the CSXT Indiana Sub and CIND mainline skinny down through the CIND Dispatcher controled interlocking onto the single track CIND Dispatcher control Oklahoma Track that dumps into the southend of CSXT's Queesgate yard.  CSXT's road trains are the landbarge Q560 - DPU equipped usually 200ish car genreal freght.  Trains gets worked in Queesgate - hump job can sneak out Oklahoma track and grad pieces of it as needed, which is why routting via Indiana Sub is so convienent.  Q272 is a rack train to Detroit that alsom has frames and a few hot general freight.  It simply passes through Cincinnati and generally scoots up the Bierman Bypass around westside of Queesgate with little delay.  Q142 is a new intermodal and has the most challanges running via Oklahoma as their is no direct route to connect Oklahoma with the pig ramp.  Esentially 142 has to go to the northend of Queensgate and shove back south into ramp.  And, so far so good it would seem.