NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 6, Issue 18

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Ron Davis

At 12:49 PM 7/12/2006, you wrote:

>>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?

>

>I'm hoping for 

>Memphis-Chattanooga-Knoxville-Wytheville-Roanoke-Harrisburg 

>dedicated trailer service... but there are a lot of obstacles to 

>overcome. For starters, you're not going to get owner-operators off 

>the road, period.

>That leaves corporate trailer traffic...all terminals so far are 

>top-lift (Elliston will be too), not circus-ramp loading, top-lift 

>requires special reinforced trailers, which weigh more.  Luckily, 

>more and more corporate trailers are going to top-lift, but there is 

>still a long way to go.

>

>

>>Plus the Heartland Corridor May help a little on I81 traffic

>>by taking the traffic coming from the west headed north off the road.

>

>If you were driving from Chicago-Detroit-Columbus-or even Prichard, 

>and your destination is the north/northeast... you won't hit I-81 

>till Hagerstown anyway (that's being generous... most traffic will 

>be on the PA Turnpike, not I-70).  Any rail traffic coming west will 

>be for Norfolk, and it will be container.   All the figures they 

>give are for taking projected traffic from APM/Mearsk off the 

>road.  While that does technically count, it's shading the numbers 

>to me, as there will be no real truck traffic reduction.

>

>I'm not against the Heartland Corridor by any means, but people need 

>to be realistic about it.

>

>

>>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.

>

>

>You're right... there are two terminals in Harrisburg... Harrisburg 

>and Rutherford... 202/226 carries blocks for E-rail, Morrisville and 

>Rutherford.

>

>

>>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.

>

>I live in Dublin, 202 isn't exactly a regular... yet.  There was a 

>few weeks or so when he was, but now he isn't... he's been off and 

>on since December... thank the TOP.

>

>

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