Is NS that big of Railroad That it can lease out as many units that are on different lines.When in Rochelle im amazed at the number of them that come thru there,and a lot of them are head end units.Also when i check A.B.P.R. same thing there.Did it over buy or is there money in leasing. I hope for some good answers.Thank you in advance
Are they being leased out or are they just being used on run-through or pool power agreements. I see NS, CSX, CP, CN, IC, BNSF, and practically every other road’s engines intermixed out here in Arizona on the Union Pacific Sunset Route all the time, and I have seen some train shows on TV with Union Pacific and other foreign road locomotives running on the NS and CSX back east.
When do those shows come on? I have that channel but the only train programs I have ever seen are the ones on Saturday morning and they are usually about steam or narrow-gauge stuff.
Trains and Locomotives, a one-hour weekly show on RFD-TV, has it’s premier showing Monday at 6:00 p.m. EST, and it is repeated during the week. A lot of them are about steam power, but they also have shows about more contemporary railroading. Two fairly recent episodes were about the Canadian Pacific, entitled “Route of the Beaver” through the Rockies and Selkirks.
PBS has a half-hour show called Tracks Ahead that airs on Sunday mornings in Tucson, and PBS sometimes also has a 30-minute show called Trackside, that originates from Aurora Public Television in the Chicago area.
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I work for NS and Ill say they are being used to repay loco use. We get BNSF units on unit coal trains and on road freights.
They are not on lease they just running through. I have seen a lot of NS on BNSF intermodal trains out wes on the transcon. You also see BNSF on KCS and NS due to run-through agreements. There used to consistently be 4 to 6 SP GE’s at CSX’s Baldwin yard outside of Jacksonville until it disappeared into UP, and it is no secret that SP was short of power.