Heartland Corridor

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Something to think about, you could run a train from the new site there 
in what is it Montgomery County? North to Front Royal and then onto 
Harrisburg? Plus the Heartland Corridor May help a little on I81 traffic 
by taking the traffic coming from the west headed north off the road. 
Also I stand corrected on the Blocks 202 has I for some reason thought 
Rutherford and Harrisburg were one in the same with Rutherford being an 
Intermodel yard in Harrisburg. Also word from an engineer friend on mine 
here on the valley states that 202 is a regular now on the Valley, but 
it would help if someone can confirm.

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

>> The ability is there to get to Harrisburg, the Shenandoah Line is

>> cleared for Double Stacks and we currently have a Train #202 Running up

>> through the Valley Friday-Monday that has blocks for Harrisburg and for

>> other northern points such as North Jersey.

>

>> So How is there No Rail way to Harrisburg from Roanoke?

>>

>> Nathan Simmons

>

>

> I know the ability to run trains is there, NS has had the ability to 

> run container trains up the valley for over a decade... the service is 

> not... you can have all the tracks and routes in the world, but they 

> are useless without service.  The Heartland Corridor does nothing to 

> address north-south trailer traffic.

>

>

> 202 (and 226 when it runs) are primarily interchange container trains 

> that originate in Memphis, with some TOFC.  Both of these formerly 

> went to Atlanta (IIRC, they still do as needed), where their traffic 

> went on 214 to Rutherford and/or E-rail (or Morrisville, biut that's 

> container only).  They are nothing more than re-routes used as 

> needed.  They are not new service.

>

> Also, they do not have blocks for Harrisburg.  NS doesn't even list 

> service to/from Memphis-Harrisburg on their Domestic Service Matrix.

>

>

>

>> Where does traffic going down the Bristol line go beyond Bristol? 

>> Would that not be the path taken to reach Knoxville AND Chatanooga? 

>> Or are we talking upgrading to handle container traffic, or what? I 

>> think I got confused somewhere....

>>

>> Bob Welsh

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>

> It would be the path... if their was service... see above.  Next time 

> you're on I-81, count the number of containers vs the number of 

> trailers (if you're really bored, count the number of OO trailers vs 

> corporate trailers)... the Heartland Corridor is for east-west 

> container traffic out of Norfolk (to coincide with APMs new terminals) 

> not north-south trailer traffic.

>

>

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