Does UP run any roadrailer trains anywhere anymore? I know at one point they had a bunch of roadrailers that now belong to Triple Crown and SP ran a Swift train but does UP handle any roadrailer train currently?
Thankyou
According to Trains November issue, UP runs a road-railer-train from Chicago to Minneapolis. They operate it for Triple Crown over a former CNW-line.
Re-read the article in “Trains”. UP operates the train under contract für TC. But the article does not answer the question whether UP is soliciting business too. This point remais open.
Steve Glischinski’s article is a full page (with pictures) providing a fairly comprehensive story. “The (UP) service is being operated under contract with Triple Crown Services…” Information and quotes are attributed to John McBride, TC’s director of transportation planning. There is NO indication that UP is involved in the marketing of the service and I think if such an arrangement existed, it would have been noted.
Jay
What was UP’s main interest in the roadrailer haulage in the first place (they used to have their own) and when did they stop?
Greetings,
Here are some shots of the UP RoadRailer train that was mentioned in the November TRAINS Magazine.
Here is the Z-train westbound on July 25th just a couple of days after the service started. Here the train is in West Allis near 72nd St
On July 25th the RoadRailer train makes a brief stop at Butler Yard.
Here the RoadRailer Z-train heads west on the Adams Line just west of North Lake, WI on July 25th. Now the train averages 50+ trailers every time
Keith Schmidt
Mark: I do not know why it takes more time to ship “Trains” in the US than across the Atlantic. Are you living in the wildeness of Alaska?
I wonder however, if UP makes much profit from these trains, considering they had to rebuild the former CNW-track. For a long-term-contract, rebuilding would of course make sense, of if they want to use the line more intensively in the future.
It is a haulage train. UP does not market the train, that’s TC’s job. Its mostly auto w/ Ford being a big tennant.
UP / Swift dropped the I-5 road railer about 60 days ago.