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How’s that for service? [8D] It will be interesting to see how well NS and UP can carry through with their promise but I wouldn’t be personally surprised if they are at least somewhat successful.
I’m going to have to go back and double check that UP bulletin. I thought that when I got it, it said, that if they weren’t on time, you’d only pay the standard rate, not the Blue Streak rate, but I don’t recall that it was free.
I read the paragraph. They say it’s free.
Apparently they want to bypass Memphis and use the Central southern states with a new corridor.
That train is probably going to be the hottest, priority top rated thing that moves anywhere on the system.
Wait until a few years has passed and that hot pay or bust train gets caught in everyone else’s freight movements seeking to bypass choked and overburdened Memphis and it’s hump.
If it needs to be somewhere one day early, It will be on time or free.
Now who wouldnt jump onto the chance of getting thier blingage 24 hours early with the added profits of no shipping costs? I say that is a pretty savvy way to fill up a brand new train that has nothing to pull on fresh tracks with nowhere to go at this time except away from Memphis.
What tickles me is thier alternative of 6th day arrival in Miami and 5 day service to other cities in the USA. MAN are those trains SLOW>… a good team in a 18 wheeler can get from LA to Boston in about 64 hours flat.
Falls, better read the announcement again. The “on time or it’s free” offer is only for westbounds. Thus, the service is 6 day FROM Miami.
I’ve read elsewhere there is not a balance between eastbound and westbound movements, which might be one of the reasons for this offer.
Hmm.
I stand corrected. In my mind I see an avalanche of West to East Commerce and hardly nothing going west except what the West Coast cannot get from overseas.
There shouldn’t be a problem with Miami-to-L.A. freight because almost nothing is produced in Miami and not many freighters discharge cargo there. If this were the 1980’s, guess the RR’s could haul cocaine westward.