Please explain how a 300-mile ‘detour’ is occurring for traffic routed via “Albany and Buffalo”. That would imply that the traffic is being forwarded up the :“Lehigh line” and the ex-West Shore to Selkirk, and then west via the ex-NYC. That is a CSX route; I don’t think NS has any line that can cost-effectively use those two points as ‘best option’. What is the adopted route for traffic to the west of the Port of Baltimore for the two railroads, with Howard Street closed, and the Key bridge down restricting drayage?
Implicitly this appears to be telling us that 300 miles of rail operation is cheaper than a few miles of drayage around 695.