2 permanent transfers opportunities in 6 months to go to Harrisburg. What is it about this place???
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Because it puts the lotion on its skin! It does what it’s told!
Then educate me on how they are not needed
They aren't needed like you may think.
Bellevue humps 2000+ cars a day on busy weekend, Conway 1600+, Enola 800.. Elkhart 2000+.
So shutting down Conway and Bellevue, with 3600+ cars to go where?
Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, Bubba "Spare Tire" Dixon.
Sounds like a novel idea! Shutdown all major shops with experience and leave ELK, INM and ENO to do all maintenance and running repairs! Even if they sell another 1000 units I’m sure those three facilities will be able to handle the workload. I’m sure the more seasoned employees at the rest of the shops wouldn’t mind moving to one of those three shops to go to the bottom of the seniority roster. PSR is great! I can’t wait to move...
Its not that its busy. The place is such a dump and awful to work, no one stays. They have a difficult time retaining people.
Well seeing as Inman is hiring furloughed electricians Machinists and laborers and continues to service the Hottest Trains on the NS system and are building a dedicated maintenance line I think we’re looking pretty here in Atlanta.
Enola (Harrisburg Area), can release trains in any direction. That's one of the reasons it will be a main hub.
Conway will be closed by the end of the year. Currently entering phase 1. Clean up and demolition of old and unused facilities. Remove all trash and unused items from buildings and clean them out. Demolish buildings for tax purposes. Lower cost when idled. First cut in the spring followed by summer and final after Thanksgiving after all of the buildings cleaned out and squared away. Waiting for it's next adventure.
Harrisburg will the handle the East Coast. Elkhart will take care of the West and Chattanooga the South.
The ultimate goal is to run trains from Harrisburg to Elkhart to Chattanooga. Whichever way and bypassing the larger yards in-between. Like Conway and Bellevue. Eventually making those yards obsolete.
TOP21 will bring traffic increases to some areas of the NS system, including Harrisburg, Pa., Elkhart, Ind., and Chattanooga, Tenn., Squires says.
In some locations, NS has turned on the new plan early.
“We anticipate heavier traffic volumes into and out of Harrisburg. Seeing that coming, believing that we had the capability to handle those increased traffic flows already, we went ahead and implemented that node in the TOP21 plan,” Squires says. “So we’ve been we’ve been sort of easing our way into it at certain locations. The big trigger will be in July.”
Squires said Harrisburg was going to be busy. Wants alot of the work to go to Harrisburg.
It's Omish Country
Fort Wayne has it too.