Re: (erielack) Intermodal Trains (was Automotive Traffic)

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

(OT post) Hmmm, Dixie Jet? I wonder if these autos were assembled in the 
Atlanta area (Doraville etc) and then interchanged with PC at Hagerstown? 
SR-N&W-Hagerstown-PC was an important route for autoracks since it bypassed 
the restricted height B&P tunnel on the NEC. By 1972 PC was bypassing L&HR 
in favor of it's own all-PC route via the Nave connection. It appears the 
exception was loaded autoracks which didn't fit through Weehawken tunnel, 
for which PC used L&HR as a bridge route in a manner similar to BNSF's use 
of Montana Rail Link. I wonder if GM autos from Framingham followed this 
route southbound?

Paul B

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Martin" <martinpl3_@_earthlink.net>
To: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Intermodal Trains (was Automotive Traffic)


> Thanks for the information, Paul.  It's a wonder to me that CR could keep
> this traffic off the highways.   In '72 the PC had a real hot shot train,
> the Dixie Jet 2, or DJ2, eastbound, that management watched like a hawk.
> The dispatcher wanted its time as soon as it got by you, which he 
> forwarded
> to the higher-ups.  It was mostly auto racks, as I remember it, going by 
> me
> in Belvidere, coupled with its rival, B&O Timesaver cars, which the L&H
> brought over from Allentown.  The L&H doubled to them on the main at 
> Hudson
> Yard, Pburg. and went by me on the way to the New Haven.
> Philip
>
>
>
> 


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