Re: Holiday shut downs
Author: Northern Snowman
Date: 06-18-2012 - 16:02
1stcajon Wrote:
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> The 4th is like Xmas & New Years, the RRs don't
> run as many trains to give more employees the day
> off. But none of the major RRs shut down
> completely. There's always very time sensitive
> freight they have to keep moving.
My experience is that the class 1s say they are not going to run trains during holidays but it's only talk. With the exception of locals almost everything else is business as normal. Any lack of train movement is usually caused by crews laying off.