New Traffic through Jonesborough TN - Crescent Line

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That was the 25N?  Hmmm, interesting.  I remember the 217 was the
regular westbound pig train on the Pokey when I was up there last
year, and it had all the UPS pigs on it headed toward Columbus.  The
233 was also a westbound Pokey stack train, but of course they
couldn't "stack" the containers because of clearances, so it was a
bunch of single stacked well cars.  It was also headed via Columbus to
points west.

They may be trying a new routing for the UPS trains.  Last winter we
had both the 217 and the 233 come down the Bristol Line when the
Whitethorne and New River districts were plugged up with derailments.
I can remember the dispatcher telling me "No track time for you today
maintainer Blevins!"

I simply replied "Okay sir.  Thank you and OUT!"

Ben Blevins


On 7/29/09, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Pete,

>

> I heard Roanoke tell track maintenance that 25N westbound (the daily

> auto-rack train) would be coming through so was also surprised to see

> all the UPS trailers on flatcars when it went by 396.8 as seen in this

> photo.

>

> Mike Pierry, Jr.

>

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> See images at following:

> http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=49

>

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:36 PM, NW Mailing List

> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>

>      This morning July 28, about nine am an inspection train went

> through Jonesborough TN headed west.  The last car had a full glass pane

> for observing the track as they went west.

>

>      Chatter on the scanner was different today, more information was

> given to each train, where they would be waiting,  and the time of

> waits.  Can?t recall the exact data but it was much more than any other

> day for the last two years.

>

>      This evening about 7 pm a different train than usual went west.  98

> % trailers on flat cars.  And a couple of 40 foot boxes.  Half of the

> trailers were marked with ?UPS?.  We have never seen a train of almost

> all trailers on flat cars.

>

>      Most of the trailers were set on cars only good for trailers.  They

> had slots for the wheels and a fifth wheel for holding the trailer to

> the car.

>

>      Does anyone have any information as to just what is going on?

>

>      Pete

>

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