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The tunnels arent necessarily the choke point, it's more the congestion at Collinwood that causes backups. There are several fairly inexpensive things that could be done to improve traffic flow through the tunnels if they wanted to and its something the unions have been pushing. There needs to be a ...

Its been a rumor for a while. Lots of people at CSX want it open, but top management is telling us there is no money to fix up and reopen the hump. They have hired 40 guys so far this year, and 50 more are coming by year end. I hope something positive happens, but like anything with the railroads, a...

Q385 is a block swap train to Willard, with Fostoria (to D753) and Toledo (to Q355) traffic . Q342 still runs. Q366 ran via Willard so they could have another Cincy train handling Willards, and to allow another outlet for Selkirk traffic out of Willard (with the extra traffic coming out of Indy on Q...

Q376 is no longer running. It was a temporary train due to the Chicago mess. Q393 is once again taking the UP and BNSF block to the BRC from Selkirk. So Q355 Q376 Q383 and Q385 are no longer running. Q131 went via Fostoria today so flooding is the likely cause.

With the BRC plugged, CSX was sending the BNSF and UP traffic out of Selkirk to Cincinnati as train Q385. BNSF traffic was assembled to form a Q383 to Chicago and UP traffic was assembled to form a Q355 to St. Louis. BRC must be getting back to normal, as there hasn't been another Q385 this week, an...

With the congestion issues in and around Collinwood, they made a few changes. There were too many trains working in Collinwood, and the Short Line is frequently a Parking lot. This is partially why the Q195/196 were started accross Michigan, and why Q263 was added as a Selkirk to Salem train. D752 (...

Another change for you on the Big 4 is the reintroduction of Q263 as a Selkirk to Salem train. Q377 will now be a Selkirk to Indy train. Q377 was getting too big and the auto parts traffic out of Buffalo and Parma was suffering. Q263 has the UP- Salem cars and the auto parts out of Buffalo and will ...

Or they could do like the Jacksonville traffic on Q117 & Q119 out of Boston- send it Chicago then send it south from there.

Q115 and L115 have been extended to St. Louis for two reasons. Q111 was getting too big, and Collinwood has been very congested. You should have Q105 on Sunday night, and a Q or L 115 on Tuesday-Saturday nights.

Q133 and 134 are TEMPORARY reroutes to Chicago while they are working on the van site in Columbus. And Considering Q125 and 126 run between Memphis and Atlanta, I don't see that happening. But, there have been several X101 and X102s this past week between Detroit and Chicago via Toledo, but they wou...

Q118 operates Wednesday afternoon out of Chicago only. L118 operates Saturday afternoon out of Chicago only. Both trains are essentially second sections of Q160, with Kearny traffic. The Q118 also has the Little Ferry trailer traffic that the L118 does not. Hopefully traffic will continue to grow wh...

BRC traffic started going via B&O this weekend. Q387 is now running Willard to Chicago (BRC) and picks up at Garrett off Q500 and Q509. Q509 is bringing the BRC cars formerly run through Michigan down to Garrett.

X903 came out of Frontier yard in Buffalo. These Railbox cars were formerly sotred in Niagara Falls, but were moved into the unused bowl at Frontier when they shut down the hump and moved a lot of work to Niagara. X919's have been bringing storage cars off the MA&N near Watertown/Carthage, NY to the...

Z708 eastbound, Z707 westbound. looks like it made a round trip between Wellington and Rockport on CSX that day.

By Lyons, NY at 0830, with a road relief crew to get on in Rochester. No outbound in Buffalo yet. Should be to Buffalo around lunchtime, and if they call it to go west, it should be to Cleveland in the evening, and west of Willard overnight.

I assume you are still in Buffalo....
Q169-03 had CSX 7890, 7495, 7683, 5342, 7515 , with the last 3 setoff in Cleveland to become Q111-04.

K644 is out of Garrett, Indiana at 1200 with CITX 3093, DME 6081, ICE 6433

Q393-27 has CSX 75, CN 5528, BNSF 8259.
Q389-27 should have NS 6649, BNSF 8215

I have noticed more AC6000CW's coming back in service. They are my favorite engines to operate, I just wish that CSX would have taken advantage of the downturn in business to do a 10-year overhaul on them, as they are pretty beat up. There seems to be more of the SD40-2's out in mainline service aga...

For CSX here's what runs through Crestline: Q105 on Sunday evening only (Boston to St. Louis in lieu of Q115) Q108 Tuesday- Sunday early afternoon Q111 Early morning Wednesday- Sunday (Cleveland to St. Louis with connections from Q115 and Q169) Q122 Tuesday- Saturday late morning Q123 Tuesday- Sunda...