After swapping crews at Webb on this raining afternoon, NS 288 (ex:202) (Rossville,TN-Rutherford,PA) is underway as the train kicks into high gear heading to the NS Knoxville West-End. Lately I’ve noticed that there has been a block of manifest cars on the head-end or the bottom of this train. From what I was told these blocks of cars are for Bulls Gap, TN which were pick up in Sheffield, AL. NS over the last few years has decided to reconfigure their train schedule by abolishing and combining freight train as part of their version of the PSR-Practice. For example, the Bulls Gap block in a normal circumstance would’ve arrived at Debutts Yard off of NS 362, get classified and placed on trains like 16T or the abolished 300, and 132, instead some one great idea would be is for intermodal trains like NS 288 to pick up the block, and set the off at their destination. So, what is normal on the railroad?
For the train and storm chaser. Trains with thunderstorms, dark clouds, rain, lightning, hurricanes - tropical storms, funnel clouds, storm light, rainbows, and snow storms.
