Exporters and trucking companies are battling delays on Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation in Memphis, causing loaded containers going to Charleston and Savannah to idle for days. Shippers may see intermodal savings evaporate in the first quarter if rail contracts rise more than 10 percent and spot truck rates continue to cool off and pressure truck contracts. Outlook Runaway demand to push US intermodal pricing higher.
Intermodal marketing company IMC executives say US intermodal rates charged to shippers will rise between 3 and 10 percent in major lanes and between 3 and 5 percent in secondary lanes this year. Chicago truck turn times tick up as cargo flows spike. Truckers are taking longer to get through terminals in Chicago because of the surge in cargo and changes in stacking containers with some railroads. US intermodal volumes show signs of recovery. Domestic intermodal volumes already elevated compared with a year ago and there are signs that international intermodal is on the upswing too.
CSX service deteriorates at Georgia, Florida terminals. COVID tempers intermodal peak season optimism. After wild swings in intermodal volume in the second quarter, CSX Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad are cautiously optimistic about peak season volumes, while realizing pandemic disruptions are lurking.
North American intermodal volume recovery lags trucking rebound. Intermodal is not seeing the same rebound in demand as trucking since the economic shutdown owing to the COVID pandemic, and research firm FTR Associates does not believe containerized rail volume will fully recover to levels until sometime in Facing grim intermodal forecasts, rails focus on costs, service.
North American intermodal volume may plunge as much as 25 percent in the second quarter, so railroads believe the right strategy is to focus on cost-cutting while providing reliable service. North American intermodal volumes plunge to near-decade low.
Railroads more conciliatory on contract rates: IMCs. Railroads are more conciliatory in negotiating contract rates than a year ago, hungry to recapture freight lost to trucking.
North American intermodal volumes down in every category in Amid weak intermodal volumes in , the JOC Domestic Intermodal Savings Index shows spot and contract savings are lower than historical averages, although the year closed stronger for shipper savings on the spot market.
Intermodal turnaround not expected until summer. Railroads and intermodal providers say there will be more volume in than last year, although shipper demand will not fully recover until the second half of this year. UP to resume service on nearly 60 lanes it cut in Union Pacific Railroad will resume service on nearly 60 previously eliminated lanes beginning Feb. US East Coast ports investing to capture more intermodal cargo.
Despite stiff truck competition, East Coast ports have taken aggressive steps to capture more intermodal cargo and spend significant capital to build out rail infrastructure.
Due to Gould's overreach, the company fell into bankruptcy in and emerged in as the Western Maryland Railway. Today, most of its network has been abandoned. Enthusiasts who closely follow the company have attached names to its various paint schemes over the years which, interestingly, have changed little during that time.
Through the many various subtle alternations the three significant changes include the following; during the early s, for better visibility yellow was introduced to the skirting, nose, and aft end of locomotives. A decade after this updated book place the design was altered to include the so-called "Boxcar Logo" featuring a basic boxcar shape around the CSX stencil.
Most observers agree that, despite some stylistic changes from time to time, the font used for "CSX" has always remained Lubalin Graph Bold. However, his departure was not the beginning of the railroad's problems. In the mids then-Chessie System took steps to pare down what it deemed superfluous or redundant segments. Louis Gateway main line Baltimore - St. Ironically, after pulling the plug the railroad was left without a competitive container route until its acquisition of Conrail in There were also key segments of the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line abandoned while talks continue today about potentially rebuilding some of these routes for passenger service.
These moves, and others, have drawn CSXT a great deal of criticism both in and outside of the industry. The Parkersburg Branch was indeed operationally expensive while its numerous tunnels restricted the amount of through traffic it could handle double-stacks could not fit through the bores.
Had the railroad then known that double-stack containers would comprise such a large percentage of rail traffic only a few decades later it certainly would have spent the extra time and slightly additional expense to upgrade the line for this freight. Today, its only vital route seeing considerable use is the former Chicago main line.
This road's busy main line ran between Washington, D. Its ancestry can be traced back to the Petersburg Railroad of , chartered to connected Petersburg, Virginia with Weldon, North Carolina. There were additional takeovers in the early 20th century, notably the Plant System of Florida acquired in It also stretched across the Southeast to Birmingham, Atlanta, and Montgomery. The road was always well managed and enjoyed a booming passenger business into the s thanks to vacationers flocking to the Sunshine State.
Clinchfield Railroad: The fabled Clinchfield was a small but important operation moving millions of tons of coal along its main line stretching from Elkhorn City, Kentucky to Spartanburg, South Carolina via Western North Carolina.
It handled heavy coal traffic and other freight while linking Midwestern carriers with those of the South via an inside gateway. Louis , while expanding across the Southeast. By it operated nearly a 5,mile network from Cincinnati and St. In it acquired the Monon before joining the Family Lines consortium in By it was opened to Michigan City along Lake Michigan. At its peak size the system, stretching miles, resembled an "X" with Monon, Indiana as the converging point of its main lines.
Alas, much of the Monon is abandoned today. The latter road offered a southerly link to Hamlet, North Carolina. Finally, on April 14, , the Seaboard Air Line Railway was incorporated which comprised more than a dozen predecessors linking Richmond, Virginia with parts of Florida.
At its peak size the SAL covered more than 4, miles from Virginia to parts of Florida while also stretching westward to Atlanta, Montgomery, and Birmingham.
Despite a bankruptcy brought about by the Great Depression the SAL was generally a strong road until entering its formal union with the Atlantic Coast Line.
This was only a marketing term and carried no corporate weight whatsoever although a colorful livery adorned new and repainted locomotives. In all three merged to form the Seaboard System. It had long been under New York Central control but regained independence following the Penn Central bankruptcy and managed to remain so when Conrail was formed in The most significant addition was the purchase of Conrail, cut up in conjunction with Norfolk Southern that year; it proved a very costly battle for the Northeastern carrier, which had direct access to the large markets of Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City.
As it turns out both CSX and NS had logistical problems to integrate their segments although they managed to largely avoid the issues Union Pacific experienced in its takeover of Southern Pacific. The above map gives a general family tree of the largest railroads which make up the current CSX Transportation system. While its future is as much of a guess as its past, many in the industry and those who study it see two mega-railroads evolve with CSX merging with one of the western railroads and Union Pacific likely joining with Norfolk Southern.
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