No more local jobs. Thoughts?
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Englewood can't handle the amount of trains. The yard was designed for mile long trains. They built extra tracks in the touted reconfiguration but no added capacity in the receiving yards. When every train is 2 or 3 tracks long it takes time to put them away. When four-ten 10,000' trains arrive Houston within a few hours of each other, it bottlenecks the terminal. These nitwits are delusional. Before the freeze there were Englewood terminating trains backed up for miles in every direction. The yard is land locked, so any reconfigurations will have minimal impact on inbound capacity. Fritz and Vena's lackeys can yell and point fingers all they want, but the logistics and their bad planning don't coincide.
Of course they will regret it
East Yard in North Platte is open and jammed... They have tried several times to close Settegast and severely regretted it every time.
You don't need yards while your busy driving away business. I dunno what business were positioned for but it's obviously not moving rail cars
Yes they’ve slowly been eliminating jobs there. Now it is soon to be a run through yard
They have been talking about shutting down this yard for a couple of years. Vena toured Houston in 2019 and marked it for closure then. It will become a storage yard, no switching, and no this won’t help other locations regain humps. With PSR, they want to eliminate humps as much as possible.
Well if anyone was paying attention the #1 id–t at UP, then you would've heard him say that the UP was well positioned for future growth! OOOPS! I guess he got that one wrong.
This won’t work, it’s been tried before. The carloads are down to 105,000 due to the cold, it’s gonna get worse
Will the closing of this yard benefit some of us at other areas to open up humps. Like our east hump that closed in North Platte. Maybe this is why they might call some of us back to work. Good luck brothers hope works out. Not good turn out either way.
Too many intermodal containers filled with liquor go missing at settegast.
At least they won’t be around to encourage everyone to do blind shoves
And I'm sure some poor soul will get on here and ask a question about why the UP is such a bad place to work.
It’s going to bite them in the rear. Watch and see
No more business?