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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 1487953" data-attributes="member: 13921"><p>Does not matter. They will still not be able to maintain a Z train schedule from Mpls to Seattle. Railway Age did an article and had quotes from a guy whose business closed because he could not do a 4 day schedule from Spokane to Chicago. There were other quotes from trucking companies that said what used to take 4 days was taking 9-11 days. </p><p></p><p>Swift, Schneider and other OTR companies put most of their coast to coast trailers on trains. Their people were quoted as saying that transit times have more than doubled and they were not able to hire enough drivers to pull their trailers off.</p><p></p><p>During that entire time that BNSF was killing off Z trains, their financial reports stated that income and net income were both up. No point running a hot train if a slow moving oil train will pay the same money.</p><p></p><p>Railroads have spent the past 20 years trying to compete against truck traffic by hauling trailers on fast schedules. From the outside, it appears that railroads found a new profit center and it does not include trailers. Trailers will still move on rails, but only if they are not in any hurry to get anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 1487953, member: 13921"] Does not matter. They will still not be able to maintain a Z train schedule from Mpls to Seattle. Railway Age did an article and had quotes from a guy whose business closed because he could not do a 4 day schedule from Spokane to Chicago. There were other quotes from trucking companies that said what used to take 4 days was taking 9-11 days. Swift, Schneider and other OTR companies put most of their coast to coast trailers on trains. Their people were quoted as saying that transit times have more than doubled and they were not able to hire enough drivers to pull their trailers off. During that entire time that BNSF was killing off Z trains, their financial reports stated that income and net income were both up. No point running a hot train if a slow moving oil train will pay the same money. Railroads have spent the past 20 years trying to compete against truck traffic by hauling trailers on fast schedules. From the outside, it appears that railroads found a new profit center and it does not include trailers. Trailers will still move on rails, but only if they are not in any hurry to get anywhere. [/QUOTE]
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