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NS is about to add one more customer down there off the Western Branch (skip a few paragraphs below) - Ohio OKs funds for two rail-related projects E-mail Friday, September 10, 2010 The Ohio Rail Development Commission says it has approved a staff recommendation for the Commission to act as the publ...

I don't think we can draw too many conclusions with the Corridor only having been open 4 days. What we do know is the both 233 and 234 are carrying stacks at present with decent lengths to boot (the I34 that ran Friday had 6300' of train into Portsmouth). 217/218 are also supposed to start carrying ...

Should be Coke I believe. Also where is the auto shredding place?

Where did you see 234 though, as they have handled stacks west of Columbus for sometime?

233 is out of Norfolk with stacks according to the OhioValley yahoo list.

I haven't heard anything official that the Dayton District is getting anything just yet until the clearance projects are completed. As for the trains we know that are coming, 235/236, it is expected that they will go via the Fostoria District vs a Toledo District/Chicago Line routing.

No, technically only involves the ability for NS to run double stacks from Columbus to Norfolk, VA over the N&W. North of Columbus was already cleared for stacks. Recently NS also received funding to eventually allow stacks over the Dayton District from Columbus to Cincinnati as well. http://www.nsc...

With the Corridor opening for business on Thursday, what changes are we going to see on the Columbus and Sandusky Districts? So far it seems 233/234 will start to carry stacks south of Rickenbacker and 235/236 should move to a Heartland Corridor routing. Also any word on the NS OCS making an appeara...

Glad you enjoy the feed and thanks for the plug! I am a bit surprised as to how well the attic antenna works as well. Aside from the voice feed I also run an ATCS server for NS from about Valley Crossing to Lunbeck.

Saturday a friend saw NS 234 arriving at Rickenbacker and dropping a long cut of solid UPS trailers. Never noticed any UPS traffic on 234 before, so it appears NS has stole some of this off CSX that used to be carried on Q146 maybe? Any thoughts?

These trains are destined to Santee Cooper's Cross, SC power plant. It's always odd to see coal moving south out of Columbus, but it is now common place with the Santeee Cooper trains as well as the ones that load in the MGA fields for Duke Power that are routed up to Greenwich and down to Columbus ...

15 mph? Only 10 MPH, so chasing is quite easy. CEFX 6671 was sidelined by the FRA a few weeks ago and I&O borrowed CSXT 2574 for a weekend until CFE 3888 arrived. Rumor has it that 3888 will stay for a while. Here is 3888 on her first trip to Columbus - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=2...

Very nice! Funny how we are still up to the same things we were 20 years ago at VA Jct.

Whit

Note that the Columbus area also has a few ATCS servers. With everyone online we have the NS Columbus District from Chillicothe to CW Tower, the Sandusky District from CW to Troyton, the Dayton District out to London as well as the CSX Columbus Sub from High Street to HV Jct.

Whit