UPS was: Re: DPU trains (was Re: Thunder on Blue Ridge)

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Bob,
 The UPS Trailer Trains have the highest priority on the system.

Don

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> Several years there was a major fire in Chillicothe, Ohio, and hoses 

> were

> laid across NS tracks.  The dispatcher was very anxious to get the 

> track

> opened up, he said, "because you're delaying the UPS trailer train" 

> (those

> were probably not his exact words.)  It sounded as if the UPS train 

> was a

> high-priority train.

>

> Bob McKell

>

>

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> Joe and Jimmy,

>

> Thanks for your insights.  Every time I have seen a stack train it 

> seemed to

> be moving faster than other trains. I had assumed that terminal time 

> would

> be small on this segment, since Bristol is the only terminal and stack

> trains are not switched there.  With regard to meets, I assume stack 

> trains

> are generally given priority and other trains would be "put in the 

> hole" to

> keep the stack trains moving.

>

>     Ray

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>

> Ray Smoot asked:

>> It is about 130 miles from Jonesborough, TN to Christiansburg, VA. It 

>> took

>> 202 about 7? hours to cover this space, or less than 20 mph.

>

> I figure it is about 150 track miles from Christiansburg to 

> Jonesborough,

> give or take. (7.5 Cburg to Walton, about 111 from Walton to the State 

> Line

> in Bristol, and ~31.5 to Jonesborough).

>

> I actually photographed 202 at 12:05 in Christiansburg, so make it 5 

> and a

> half hours (and less if Pete actually saw 23G, which was 30 minutes 

> behind

> 202 at Christiansburg.

>

> That makes it 27.5 mph (or maybe as high as 30).

>

>> A truck would have covered this in about three hours.

>

> And likely less on a purely interstate run.

>

>> Is this typical of stack trains?

>

> In mountainous areas with curves and grades.

> They can probably complete better in flat areas.

>

>

> Joe Shaw

> Christiansburg, VA

> http://www.krunk.org/

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