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Certainly good news. Southern Ohio has lost so much industry over the years, it's always good to see some sort of development.

Pie39 wrote:http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 259&nseq=4
Supposedly the last 381. This I believe is the third 381 to be the last 381, for some background. Still, one of these days, maybe today, it'll be true.

Those 2 bay hoppers hauling sand? Where to/from?

Would anyone happen to have (and or know the ansewer to my question) the steepest grade (percentage wise) on the long gone Cincinnati Northern?

Or also, what specific Conrail time table I could find this in?

Defiance, - Johns Manville (one of two plants in town, not sure if the other gets cars or not) I take it this is the industry between 5th and 3rd street? Google maps doesn't list a name. That small bio-diesel place with the tanks that is adjacent to the yard in Defiance (I think it is bio-diesel?) ...

Would anyone happen to have a list of the industries that are served?

I know this is off topic. Are you the same CG tower that used to run the "CG tower" website? That had some really good info on it (especially of the Great Miami & Scioto) . It's been down for quite some time.

~Z~ wrote:As CSX_CO said, they posted their 4th quarter earnings.... NS cutting 2000 jobs soon...
http://wsls.com/2016/01/27/norfolk-sout ... to-be-cut/

Watch it be all transportation and M/W. They're already workin on it.

That's the one thing that will never change in this industry. The furloughs and ups and downs. Hold on as long as you can for as quickly everything changed, just as quickly things pick back up. I hope you can hang on. I have been told (but I haven't seen actual proof) that there was a lawsuit broug...

My buddy works for NS in Atlanta and said they are so top heavy there and so much unproductivity it will blow your mind. In the spring and summer the VPs and there are many are out playing golf and never in the office. If you need something done one needs to leave a text or wait till the next day. ...

midland sub wrote: With all the cuts in the different crafts so far not a single manager has been cut that anyone knows of.....

Typical. Cutting transportation employees first seems to be the name of the game.

I'm pretty close to facing a layoff because of it.

I would not get your hopes up stone leaving the CCET and going somewhere on NS. Remember NS makes the rates on all traffic on the CCET. The recent substantionsal rate increases NS did to Winchester and Huhtamkai are ugly and a statement of how they control the rates. The only thing CCET can set a r...

Wasn't even thought of yet. In fact.. I'm not sure my parents even knew each other at the time.

There is a potential for the Martin Marietta blasting mine operation may use the CCET to haul their material out to points south and west of Cincinnati. This has been an ongoing fight with Newtown, Indian Hill, Terrace Park and Mariemont for the past three years. These communities don't want blasti...

Now if you think for a second that means reopening the east end just stop. Unfortunately the Peavine is gone. I've talked to guys that ran the line, it was a tough piece of railroad but, right now the biggest issue outside of Vera is that the line has no industry on the east end. The west end may h...

That's exactly the same information everyone else has too. Dickinson will continue as the yard for what's left in Charleston. He's not a credible source by any stretch. He will run with anything you tell him especially if it's Peavine or WV Sec and believe it no matter how outlandish the rumor. Mos...

Everyone seems to think the end of 380/381 is tomorrow. There's supposed to be 2 more loaded northbound loaded coal trains in the next couple of days and a possible train of bad ordered coal gons and other junk from Charleston area next week. Otherwise everyone else is under the impression line is ...

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 63&nseq=75


This may be of interest. Midland do you or anyone else have info on this?

Nice looks straight 40s... I presume they're -3 ?

midland sub wrote: the autorouter system

That waste of money.

Trips to Bellevue went from 8-10 hours on average to 11+ and outlawing more than we should. The Sandusky district got turned into a parking lot. I've also seen it drop and change signals with us in the preceding block.

midland sub wrote:NS made it official today that the line is being taken out of service.

http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en ... uppor.html

That'll most likely result in some more layoffs in Portsmouth and Columbus.