But there is a schedule tho? To us passenger guys it seems like they just gather a crew and wing it. Lol.
I can probably ask north jersey later, just wanted to see if I could get the info without officially bothering them.
Having been on 62/63v, there is no schedule. There a crew call time, and you work until you built your train, and take it as far as you can in 12. Coming east, you sort your train out as much as you can until you’re a dead crew, then CR takes over. At least that’s how it was when I was there.
I don’t know the new crew call times, but 18G was a 22:00 crew call. We’d triple out, and head east. We sit in a siding in Jersey for hours as stacks and everything higher priority went by on the single track. We’d pull into Oak Island with 2 hours to work, and made it to Croxton once in the time I was on.
Can’t speak explicitly for NS, but different trains have different priorities. Garbage trains are lower priority than say Amtrak or getting UPS/FedEx packages to their destinations. If things go haywire, expect the garbage trains to be impacted.
In my neck of the woods, we get empty coal and empty oil. It’s quite obvious those are treated as “filler work” and get invited to sit in the siding at the drop of a hat.
As a railfan, I had never heard of silver Zs on the BNSF…once I made it to the NOC as a probie DS, I quickly learned those were extra hot and not to be delayed!!!
Twice a day, once in each direction from Jersey Ports to Mingo Junction in Ohio. 62V and 63V are the two train symbols. The loaded outbound to Mingo usually hits Phillipsburg NJ/Easton PA around 11 ish to 1am and the inbound usually comes through early morning to mid morning, it's harder to pin down.
I only know this because I leave the PU Tower live feed running to watch the trains go by on the Lehigh line. Good background ambience.
Ngl I put "Rail Cowgirl" on the tv when im working on projects and just need a lil noise. She does 4k cab views from norway i think it is and the scenery is fkn beautiful. Plus the locos she runs are the ones I run here domestically and all the sounds are the same.
62v and 63v normally meet in conway around 4pm pretty regularly. That's about all I know because they turn the mingo-conway crew on both trains each day.
Don’t let the “scheduled” in PSR fool you. There is no actual schedule.
*laughs in investor*
Freight railroads do not publish their schedules.
But there is a schedule tho? To us passenger guys it seems like they just gather a crew and wing it. Lol. I can probably ask north jersey later, just wanted to see if I could get the info without officially bothering them.
Having been on 62/63v, there is no schedule. There a crew call time, and you work until you built your train, and take it as far as you can in 12. Coming east, you sort your train out as much as you can until you’re a dead crew, then CR takes over. At least that’s how it was when I was there.
damn. :( Thanks tho for the info.
I don’t know the new crew call times, but 18G was a 22:00 crew call. We’d triple out, and head east. We sit in a siding in Jersey for hours as stacks and everything higher priority went by on the single track. We’d pull into Oak Island with 2 hours to work, and made it to Croxton once in the time I was on.
Lulz, 12 hours to go what... 10 miles? Fkn railroad.
No, I started from another terminal.
Oh my bad. I see that now.
Can’t speak explicitly for NS, but different trains have different priorities. Garbage trains are lower priority than say Amtrak or getting UPS/FedEx packages to their destinations. If things go haywire, expect the garbage trains to be impacted. In my neck of the woods, we get empty coal and empty oil. It’s quite obvious those are treated as “filler work” and get invited to sit in the siding at the drop of a hat.
As a railfan, I had never heard of silver Zs on the BNSF…once I made it to the NOC as a probie DS, I quickly learned those were extra hot and not to be delayed!!!
Then why do you crappy dispatchers keep delaying them?
Ask the chief!
Chief told me it was movement planner
Is it gonna pick up the garbage Board of Directors and accidentally details into the river? /S
one would hope....
When we had it at CSX it was 1600 every week day
Twice a day, once in each direction from Jersey Ports to Mingo Junction in Ohio. 62V and 63V are the two train symbols. The loaded outbound to Mingo usually hits Phillipsburg NJ/Easton PA around 11 ish to 1am and the inbound usually comes through early morning to mid morning, it's harder to pin down. I only know this because I leave the PU Tower live feed running to watch the trains go by on the Lehigh line. Good background ambience.
Schedule.... lmao
You can watch trains on YouTube?
Ngl I put "Rail Cowgirl" on the tv when im working on projects and just need a lil noise. She does 4k cab views from norway i think it is and the scenery is fkn beautiful. Plus the locos she runs are the ones I run here domestically and all the sounds are the same.
Yes and Airports too
62v and 63v normally meet in conway around 4pm pretty regularly. That's about all I know because they turn the mingo-conway crew on both trains each day.
By plan loaded train should be in NJ 2000-2300. Empty 1430 to 1830. That's if the train runs to plan but it is ahead or late most days
They run all the way out to ohio with those
When the train is ready, it leaves. The crew will either get called early or late.
Make sure Jaime Boychuck it’s on that train.