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

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Another unsigned post.  Why?

Jim Brewer

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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?

>

> 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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