Western Railroad Discussion > Speedway Sunday

I had a chance to get out this afternoon to get a couple of trains on The Meridian Speedway.  Traffic was light, but I was able to capture one photo of 168 (Wylie-Atlanta Intermodal) as it struggled upgrade east of Vicksburg, and two shots of 165 (Myrtlewood, AL to Wylie, Tx Intermodal) behind CSX power east of Vicksburg and near Tallulah, Louisiana.

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Great trio!

Nice shots.

Do you know if the Schneider traffic will stay with the present CPKC/CSX routing or will that revert to an NS routing once reaching Meridian?

That piece of the news release on NS getting that business wasn't all that clear, at least to me.

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ShortlinesUSA Wrote:
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> Do you know if the Schneider traffic will stay
> with the present CPKC/CSX routing or will that
> revert to an NS routing once reaching Meridian?
>
> That piece of the news release on NS getting that
> business wasn't all that clear, at least to me.

I honestly don't know.  I have heard that the Schneider traffic on CPKC trains 164 and 165 won't be affected by the switch to NS, but the press release by Schneider doesn't make that clear.  Schneider did say that the CPKC traffic won't be affected by the switch to NS, but like many others, I am assuming that means the traffic that moves north-south on the CPKC MMX service on Trains 180 and 181.  I guess we'll just have to watch the traffic to see what happens.  

Real nice. Is the CSX train a new one via old M&B?
JB

Sorry for my ignorance but why is it called the Meridian Speedway ?