stack train with an added car

[steveiez]

Today coming thru Glenfield was the usual boring double stacker. The strange thing{I have never seen this before} was a UP reefer car behind the two GE's. Is this common?

[florida581]

It's not uncommon.  CSX runs a few Tropicana reefers on the front on its Cincinnati/Jacksonville intermodals.  NS will put a cut of autoracks with its intermodals as well.  Or perhaps that one particular car you saw on that intermodal was a bad order, was repaired, and this train picked it up.

[NSMoWandS]

CSX has also changed the Q740/Q741 juice trains from FL to NJ/NY to Q140/141 and it is usually a daily occurrence to have both well cars and refrigerator cars. Dan

[steveiez]

Thanks, I figured it might be a very high priority reefer that needed too get there.

[E.M. Bell]

I have seen an odd car mixed in with a solid stack or intermodal train before, but its a rare thing up this way. Under NS rules, that 1 box car (or what ever it might be) will cause a 60mph train to be come a 50mph train, and that is not getting it where it needs to go (or the intermodal for that matter) any faster.

[T. Mahan]

Wasn't there an intermodal that usually ran on the CNO&TP with one of those huge auto parts boxcars on the head end?  I recall seeing that a few times at Perryville St. at Danville.

[E.M. Bell]

Yes, 236 I think it was TJ.  23G also used to leave Louisville every day with a sizable cut of FORD frames on the bottom that came off the PAL in Etown. I am not sure what happened to that traffic, but its been gone now for a couple of years.

[Matt L]

I've seen NS added a little bit of mixed freight to the head end of 287, which is an auto rack train originating in Buffalo. I'm guessing they'll added other cars if there's a need to expedite them.

[Ptrainman]

EM, there used to be a Ford plant at Petersburg, VA that is now closed so I would say those frames where coming out here.


Paul