CSX Timetable Question

ninehorse · January 5, 2018, 3:51pm

I was looking at the 2008 CSX Dearborn Sub timetable and it listed different maximum speeds for “TV” and “Freight” trains. Can someone please tell me what a “TV” train is? Thanks in Advance!

tree68 · January 5, 2018, 4:34pm

Sounds like TV is a throwback to the early intermodal (TransVan?). And that’s probably what it means.

ninehorse · January 5, 2018, 4:36pm

Thanks. It was from a 2008 Timetable.

Overmod · January 5, 2018, 4:56pm

I don’t think I can remember a time it wasn’t “Trailer Van”.

tree68 · January 5, 2018, 5:18pm

Agreed. The term just didn’t come to me at the time.

ninehorse · January 5, 2018, 5:22pm

Mystery solved! Thanks for the help.

mudchicken · January 5, 2018, 6:33pm

Seems to be a PRR/PC/CR term in origin … never seen the term used anywhere else.

CShaveRR · January 5, 2018, 6:47pm

I believe it was “TrailVan” back in the day.

BaltACD · January 5, 2018, 8:53pm

It is not used on the non-ConRail parts of CSX.

Paul_D_North_Jr · January 5, 2018, 9:24pm

“+1”

tree68 · January 6, 2018, 6:55am

Going back to the OP, I believe that denotes IM.