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

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For some reason all my statement didn't come through with the email when it went the NW Mailing List.  Here's the complete text I intended to send: 

Assumptions:

I would assume the UPS contracts with Norfolk Southern and other railroads are written with penalties and/or incentives based on schedule and other performance metrics.  If a railroad wants to make the maximum payout on this type of contract, consistently meeting or bettering the contracted schedules would be the critical performance metric. To look beyond that, contracts likely too are written such that if the railroad failed to consistently meet its contracted schedule or other metrics UPS could terminate the contract and move their business to a competitor.  

My employer has alliances with the certain utilities that are based on a contractual process using metrics to determine the percentage of profit (down to only having total cost covered) for each contracts based on performance metrics; schedule, quality, safety, cost, and other performance metrics.  Such contracts drive good performance and cooperation between suppliers and customers to create win-win results.  We work under this kind of arrangement at the customers nuclear facility I am assigned to.

Ed Painter - Narrows, VA living in Russellville, AR       

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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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