NS 29E to sterling? run as needed?

[CharlieX90]

got a long northbound empty autos led by single csx 16.whole train was to be left at sterling,no power back to oakwood.Is this a run as needed train like the other emptys???

[ConrailDetr​oit]

The empty ns autorack train to sterling is regular as far as I am hearing. It brings in empty racks into the yard for conrail to switch into chrysler. Then the loaded racks move out on ns 31m.

I wonder why the ns 29e was using csx power


Then there is the ns b35 that brings in the other cars like auto parts boxcars for Chrysler stamping and other industry on the sterling secondary.

[ns8401]

The class one's have been paying back horsepower hours owed for the last few months, as for a CSX unit on an NS train, that's not as uncommon as it sounds, in fact NS B20 one day had a CSX -8 as sole power to run from Wayne to Willow Run Yard and back. Or the day I saw 38J with a CSX leader..... it happens....

[GTWTD3]

29E is not a regular train, it is an as needed empty auto rack positioning move, only 4 have run in the past month. There have been other symbols used bringing solid empty autorack trains to Detroit, but nothing is scheduled. As for the CSX power, the train came from CSX at Cleveland. Has nothing to do with horsepower hours owed, rather it was just a runthrough train and there was no need to change the power.

[ns8401]

Now that I re-read what I wrote I didn't separate the two thoughts as well as I had wanted....
I meant that the CSX power on 29E was run through and that as a side note the class ones have been paying back HPH in the recession, at least that's what I hear... hopefully they still will when I come home in December and I'll get some neat fanning out of it...

[ConrailDetr​oit]

I wonder why CSX wont just run it up to Sterling and get the revenue then to interchange it to the NS when CSX has trackage to Detroit and to the Conrail they own half of.

[Buster Manning]

Unless things have changed, there is no revenue from empty cars; perhaps CSX was smart in letting NS spend their dime on a non-revenue move by handing them off as soon as practicable for NS to position them where they were needed.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

Oh that explains it.

[esprrfan]

Sometimes NS just shakes the "Magic 8 ball" for symbols. It's also how the chiefs know what to say when you call them with a question.

[hoborich]

When I worked on the railroad, only loads got billed. Assigned emptys returned free.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

That seemed strange CSX would interchange an empty autorack train to NS when both railroads have trackage to the same place.

[GTWTD3]

Has everything to do with TTX. I don't know the details, but they have a system that calculates how much of the empty moves goes to railroad a versus railroad b.