Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS's PSR plan moving down the line...

Norfolk Southern is making signiicant strides toward achieving fluidity, resiliency, and capacity for growth.

https://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/norfolk_southerns_psr_plan_is_moving_on_down_the_line

Th Crescent has been on time or close to it on many days recently.  A real change.

When I see 6 straight months of good OTP performance west of Porter, IN, I'll re-evaluate.  

The one reason NS is more fluid is rail traffic is down, and that is industry wise also. Now how fluid will they be when the economy picks back up say 3rd quarter 2019? Ask CN and CP.

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Jimbo Wrote:
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> Th Crescent has been on time or close to it on
> many days recently.  A real change.

The Crescent arrived 22 minutes early into Birmingham today.

There was also the Supreme Court  dismissal of hearing the AAR case a couple of weeks ago. 

The eastbound Pennsylvanian has been doing very poorly the past few days. Yesterday it was about three hours late into NWK Penn. Today it hasn’t been doing well either. I know that NS has been replacing many of their signals along the Pittsburgh Line. I’m going to Altoona from NWK on 43 this Saturday and then continuing onto Pittsburgh a week from today. On 6/30, I head back to NWK on 42. I’m hoping that I’m not too late.

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Back when I went in late April to Altoona, it was the busiest it has been in a long time. 

I have also heard of PTC failures, initialization problems, etc., on 42/43.

PRR1361 Wrote:
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> I have also heard of PTC failures, initialization
> problems, etc., on 42/43.

Not correct. PTC has yet to be activated on the NS Pittsburgh Line.

Jon

resqjon Wrote:
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> PRR1361 Wrote:
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> > I have also heard of PTC failures,
> initialization
> > problems, etc., on 42/43.
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> Not correct. PTC has yet to be activated on the
> NS Pittsburgh Line.
>
> Jon



Train crews have to initialize PTC before departing, even if they will not be operating
on activated lines till later.
 

ERAD Wrote:

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> Train crews have to initialize PTC before
> departing, even if they will not be operating
> on activated lines till later.
>  

Absolutely correct.  However, 42/43 do not currently operate in any PTC territory, so no initializing is taking place at this time.

Jon