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This reminds of something that happened a bit more locally with a shortline back in May of 2018. Last year, Norfolk Southern decided to redesign a pretty major junction in downtown Chattanooga (that had been a bit of a traffic choke-point for both NS and CSX with how busy and badly designed it was), and announced a 48-hour curfew for operations in the Chattanooga area one weekend, so no trains would be trying to run through there while the junction was being redone.
Now, this local shortline’s only interchange was with an NS mainline whose eastern terminus was Chattanooga, and they were getting quite a few cars from Chattanooga. You want to know how they found-out about this curfew?
Railfans posting about the curfew on a few local railfanning Facebook groups. Yes, really. You’d think the shortline’s one interchange partner, Norfolk Southern, would’ve sent out some kind of notification to the railroad, but nope, apparently that was too good of an idea for them… But this wasn’t the first, nor the last, issue the shortline’s had with NS, so I guess I can’t really say I’m surprised.
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This reminds of something that happened a bit more locally with a shortline back in May of 2018. Last year, Norfolk Southern decided to redesign a pretty major junction in downtown Chattanooga (that had been a bit of a traffic choke-point for both NS and CSX with how busy and badly designed it was), and announced a 48-hour curfew for operations in the Chattanooga area one weekend, so no trains would be trying to run through there while the junction was being redone.
Now, this local shortline’s only interchange was with an NS mainline whose eastern terminus was Chattanooga, and they were getting quite a few cars from Chattanooga. You want to know how they found-out about this curfew?
Railfans posting about the curfew on a few local railfanning Facebook groups. Yes, really. You’d think the shortline’s one interchange partner, Norfolk Southern, would’ve sent out some kind of notification to the railroad, but nope, apparently that was too good of an idea for them… But this wasn’t the first, nor the last, issue the shortline’s had with NS, so I guess I can’t really say I’m surprised.