Missed Opportunity
In this world of Precision Scheduled Railroading, the current class one's miss opportunities to advertise themselves in a positive light instead of trying to do damage control (such that Norfolk Southern has been doing ever since the East Palestine derailment, Union Pacific with constant service problems......the list can go on and on). But I suppose in this day of watching every dollar for the benefit of shareholder value small things like that get overlooked. Case in point. Here is CSXT train I003 crossing Doodletown Bight from Iona Island to Bear Mountain behind a pair of matching Dark Future GE's leading a solid block of Amazon containers. Predacessor New York Central and even Penn Central did photo shoots and television commercials of the Pacemaker, Flexi-vans and multi-level auto rack trains in the Hudson valley. It's a natural photo prop for a positive spin of how commerce moves across the country, and the world. You never realize how big a customer is until you see just about an entire train loaded with their equipment. Makes you wonder how many people realize when they "point and click" that part of the journey their package made was on rail?
Missed Opportunity
In this world of Precision Scheduled Railroading, the current class one's miss opportunities to advertise themselves in a positive light instead of trying to do damage control (such that Norfolk Southern has been doing ever since the East Palestine derailment, Union Pacific with constant service problems......the list can go on and on). But I suppose in this day of watching every dollar for the benefit of shareholder value small things like that get overlooked. Case in point. Here is CSXT train I003 crossing Doodletown Bight from Iona Island to Bear Mountain behind a pair of matching Dark Future GE's leading a solid block of Amazon containers. Predacessor New York Central and even Penn Central did photo shoots and television commercials of the Pacemaker, Flexi-vans and multi-level auto rack trains in the Hudson valley. It's a natural photo prop for a positive spin of how commerce moves across the country, and the world. You never realize how big a customer is until you see just about an entire train loaded with their equipment. Makes you wonder how many people realize when they "point and click" that part of the journey their package made was on rail?