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NS suspending eight domestic intermodal routes
Very strange, methinks. More info, please.
As a interesting side note, Norfolk Southern, the city of Charlotte, NCDOT, and Charlotte-Douglas international airport are breaking ground on a new intermodal terminal on Monday. The new intermodal terminal will be located between the 2nd and 3rd parallel runways and provide direct access to the Norfolk Southern mainline, the NC railroad, and I-485. The new intermodal terminal will allow for NS to move out of its current cramped intermodal yard which is to be closed and become a LRT maintenance facility for the northeast corridor LRT project. NS is investing nearly 40 million in the project so I assume intermodal service will come from the ports south of Charlotte if intermodal freight is to be halted to the north.
I don’t understand this either. Here in Huntsville we see numerous stacktrains and service to a state of the art container terminal located at Huntsville International Airport. Lots and lots of containers in and out of there.
This article brings more questions than it answeres. We need a followup as to what NS is trying to do here, and why. I can’t imagine an NS press release that would leave important shippers with such a negative appearing situation.
quite surprising that NS would abandon service down the east coast of Florida. that seemed to me to be a boon of a service by them.
Could more detail on why NS is suspending service on 8
routes be given.
What does this mean exactly? Are they going to just stop moving dometic containers all together? What prompted this?
Hows is that going to improve network efficiency?
They’re refusing the traffic and they’re not going to move it? I don’t get it. I guess if you don’t run any trains it makes you more efficeint.
They’ll still run the trains, just not the same way. They aren’t refusing service. They’ll simply take a different route before the containers get to the destination. Maybe this way less set outs and pick ups will lead to faster transit times.
If this is the case, a lot of NS trains like 20K, 22V, 212, 211, 20W are going to stop running. I’ll miss seeing those trains at Reading, allentown, blandon and wherever they run
I still don’t get it either. Surely there was more to the press release than provided…