Re: PSR at a shortline?
Author: J.K. Trowling
Date: 10-25-2018 - 16:10
Steve wins. Exactly right. Being in the shortline business, we do everything we can to get every carload. To be very blunt, shortlines survive by being the shippers' b!tch. Yes, you call us whenever, and if we can make it happen, you'll get a switch/spot/pull. This is precisely what so-called precision railroading is NOT. Precision railroading is just another term for shippers falling in line and putting up with crappy service from Class 1 railroads in search of Operating Ratios down in the 50s.
steve Wrote:
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> One of the tenants of "Precision Railroading" is
> to focus on moving less marginally profitable
> carloads and cut routes, train crews ,locomotives
> and cars. In the big picture this will hurt
> shortlines. If the rate of return providing
> interchange to a shortline is marginally
> profitable service could diminish to the point it
> put's the shoreline out of business. In the end
> that would be the desired effect of the big RR"s.