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With the back up of manifest trains at Norfolk Southerns Norris Yard in Birmingham AL the railroad has rerouted several trains from New Orleans, LA and Meridian, MS to eastern yards within the system. It was reported by a TO member that last week NS had a retarder failure and the hump yards computer system failed as a result of storms in the Birmingham area. 

Last week and again this week we continue to see scattered in with the scheduled east bound traffic reroutes on the NS East End with trains 340 (MERIDIAN, MS (KCS MSSHNS) – BIRMINGHAM, AL) and 314 (NEW ORLEANS, LA (UP QLINSB) – BIRMINGHAM, AL) running through Georgia on their way to Spencer Yard in Linwood NC. 

This Weeks Re-routes included:

#1 Wednesday's NS 340 (MERIDIAN, MS (KCS MSSHNS) – BIRMINGHAM, AL) running on the Alabama Div East End District through Temple Georgia this morning with two head end units, 120 cars and a end of train DPU. First train through here with an end of train DPU, as east bound manifests have had mid train DPU's for several weeks now.

#2 Thursday we saw another manifest NS 198 (NEW ORLEANS, LA – BIRMINGHAM, AL) run on the East End through Villa Rica Georgia with two head end units and 82 cars.

Phil Maton
Villa Rica, GA

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