A couple of days ago I say a powder blue diesel unit letter KCS bringing up the rear of a BNSF coal drag. I assume that stands for Kansas City Southern?
Today I saw boxcars rolling north lettered for the RJ CONNELL (sp?) Railroad. Does anyone know anything about that outfit? First I ever heard of them.
Interesting thing...for years and years, loaded consists have traveled south and empties have returned north. Now, about a third of the traffic I have seen is loaded going north with the empties returning south.
MountainMan Wrote:A couple of days ago I say a powder blue diesel unit letter KCS bringing up the rear of a BNSF coal drag. I assume that stands for Kansas City Southern?
Yep. Btw - is "powder blue" pretty much the same as grey ? As in
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2669...ca.jpg?v=0
MountainMan Wrote:Today I saw boxcars rolling north lettered for the RJ CONNELL (sp?) Railroad. Does anyone know anything about that outfit? First I ever heard of them.
Probably RJ Corman (
http://www.rjcorman.com/). Was an interesting article on them in Trains magazine a while back.
Smile,
Stein
Yes, RJ Corman - spelling was corrected in initial post by not accepted by forum software.
According to their website, they are a Kentucky shortline. I couldn't find any reason why their empty boxcars would be part of a BNSF northbound freight haul, and since I'm not a fan of modern rail;roads, I thought I would ask those who are.
Probably just got lost.
Thanks for the response.
MountainMan Wrote:Yes, RJ Corman - spelling was corrected in initial post by not accepted by forum software.
According to their website, they are a Kentucky shortline. I couldn't find any reason why their empty boxcars would be part of a BNSF northbound freight haul, and since I'm not a fan of modern rail;roads, I thought I would ask those who are.
Probably just got lost.
Thanks for the response.
First R.J.Corman has short lines in Kentucky,Tennessee,Ohio, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia..
The boxcar was probably a empty being returned to home rails.You see the car was loaded on one of Corman's short line and the receiver was on another road-maybe the BNSF...You see loaded freight cars travel far from home rails through interchange.This is how a CSX car gets lined hauled by the UP,NS or any road.It may even end up at a receiver in San Francisco or get loaded on the CSX in Baltimore and end up at a warehouse in Miami served by CSX so,the car didn't leave home rails--this load.Next load could be to a warehouse/industry served by R.J.Corman NS,CN or any road...
See how it works?
steinjr Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:A couple of days ago I say a powder blue diesel unit letter KCS bringing up the rear of a BNSF coal drag. I assume that stands for Kansas City Southern?
Yep. Btw - is "powder blue" pretty much the same as grey ? As in http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2669...ca.jpg?v=0
MountainMan Wrote:Today I saw boxcars rolling north lettered for the RJ CONNELL (sp?) Railroad. Does anyone know anything about that outfit? First I ever heard of them.
Probably RJ Corman (http://www.rjcorman.com/). Was an interesting article on them in Trains magazine a while back.
Smile,
Stein
to me, when I was looking at the unit, it was a pale blue that I learned to call "powder blue" when I was a kid. Admittedly, it was pretty dirty, but the sun was shining....so...
Brakie Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:Yes, RJ Corman - spelling was corrected in initial post by not accepted by forum software.
According to their website, they are a Kentucky shortline. I couldn't find any reason why their empty boxcars would be part of a BNSF northbound freight haul, and since I'm not a fan of modern rail;roads, I thought I would ask those who are.
Probably just got lost.
Thanks for the response.
First R.J.Corman has short lines in Kentucky,Tennessee,Ohio, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia..
The boxcar was probably a empty being returned to home rails.You see the car was loaded on one of Corman's short line and the receiver was on another road-maybe the BNSF...You see loaded freight cars travel far from home rails through interchange.This is how a CSX car gets lined hauled by the UP,NS or any road.It may even end up at a receiver in San Francisco or get loaded on the CSX in Baltimore and end up at a warehouse in Miami served by CSX so,the car didn't leave home rails--this load.Next load could be to a warehouse/industry served by R.J.Corman NS,CN or any road...
See how it works?
I never saw these particular cars before, and it's odd, as I posted elsewhere, to see empties heading that particular direction, keeping mind as well that the trackage is owned and maintained by UP but operated on almost solely by BNSF. I simply attributed it to a change in freight shipping patterns.
As I said, modern operations are not of great interest to me, except as they reflect trends on a greater scale.
MM said:As I said, modern operations are not of great interest to me, except as they reflect trends on a greater scale.
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Actually today's freight operation is misunderstood..Its not that much different then 40/50 years ago..Today's "team" tracks are now called transloading tracks..The old fashion freight house is now known as a distribution center.Those old
Trailer Trains has become "intermodal" trains...There has always been "unit" trains dating back to the live stock trains of the 1880s...Nothing as really changed..In one way one could say the old cab units revolved into the wide cabs.
50 years ago "All diesels looks alike" was the cry..50 years later the same cry can be heard..However,in all actuality diesels are no more alike then steam locomotives...Just like 50 years ago the majority of the modelers failed to study locomotives.
See how nothing has really change?
Not even that ageless "All diesels looks alike" has changed..
MountainMan Wrote:???????????????????????/
What's the question?
Question marks doesn't help answer your questions..
After all your open statement (As I said, modern operations are not of great interest to me, except as they reflect trends on a greater scale) made it sound like you don't understand today's railroads isn't that much different then 50 years ago.
Got a question ask and I will try to answer..
Confused then I will try to clarify.