CIND: Greensburg to Shelbyville

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And one more...

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Should be some activity west of Honda today, although it will probably be limited to just west of Adams area.  The downturn in the coal market caused the deal for the cars that been stored at far west end to fall apart, so the movement pictured in the previous posts in this thread never made it past Honda.  Since then, another empty train had shown up for storage, so both trains where kept on main behind Honda.  This morning, CIND is enroute to Greensburg with yet another empty train for storage.  No room at the inn to park this train without moving others.  Anticipate at least the set parked between middle and west Honda crossovers will be shoved west of Adams out toward the "pipeyard" - both currently stored trains could end up west of Adams to open up main between east and middle Honda crossovers to give CIND a little more flexibility in switching Honda.

Creeping back West...

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Scrappy,

I was down past the old pipe field location on Sunday and most of that track is now full of coal hoppers.

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[k9fon]

Why does CSX keep a line that has very little online business?

[IndyHog]

Just guessing , they don't want anyone else to have it.

[CIND 2254]

CSX makes enough with the business that they have in Shelbyville. Down some with the economy im sure though.

Christian

[scraphauler]

Just guessing , they don't want anyone else to have it.

In my opinion, it would be more accurate to say they don't want RailAmerica to have it.  CIND (RA) holds right of first refusal on this line (as well as the line to Frankfort) should Conrail or it's successors (CSX in this case) decide to sell or abandon the line.  This dates back to the Shelbyville Secondary sales agreement between Conrail and Central.  My guess, again, just speculation on my part, is that if this agreement did not exist, CSXT would have already found a way to quietly spin this line (and maybe even the Frankfort line) off to their little stock investment known as the INRD with an agreement to have INRD to the physical switch and CSXT to keep the lion's share of roadhaul revenue.

Reason this piece was not sold to CIND in the first place was at time of sale, Gencor Automotive (or whatever their name was) was kicking out a dozen or more 86' autoparts boxes as day going to General Motors in Wilmington DE and Framingham MA.  They where not comfortable turning the originating switch for this high dollar traffic over to a shortline.  By the time Gencor lost the GM contract, thus drying up and blowing away, CR was already in the early stages of their break up and where not interested in entertaining selling ANYTHING. 

[Jeff]

Would CIND be interested if the offer came up?

[leeps]

Before CSX took the track in Shelbyville out of service severing the connection to CIND, Cincinnati Railway would haul their PV's back and forth to Indy for AMTRAK pick up. AMTRAK would haul the cars from the station out to Beech Grove where they would meet the I & O, CIND or Cincinnati Railway (I'm not sure which one!) for the haul back to Norwood. The problem was that out and back for the pick up crew would take longer than 12 hours, especially if CSX held the train at Queensgate. It was also prior to the CIND Honda upgrade of the line so there was a lot of 10 and 20 mph running.

[scraphauler]

CIND has rights to interchange traffic (passenger or freight) with AMTK Beech Grove.   Cincinnati Railway operates (operated) in/out of Beech Grove as a CIND movement. 

[scraphauler]

Looks like the crossing signal work taking place on the line east of Honda is also taking place west of Honda on the "unused" portion of the line.  Noticed this past weekend that all signals in Adams and St Paul now have new LED heads.  Lights in Waldron where still the old ones as of this past Sunday, but the pile of old signal heads at the signal dept "depot" in Batesville continues to grow, so they may have been replaced in past couple days as well.

Nothing new for this portion of the line.  Line still blocked with 140 aluminum coal cars west of Adams at the "pipeyard" and another 46 misc cars at the west end of Honda, just east of Adams.   Lots of rumbling of new customers and/or new traffic looking at line, but nothing imminent yet.

[Chessie_GW97]

From what I hear about GWI, they seem to be good at luring new customers. The future could be bright!

[scraphauler]

Rare movement west of Honda today.  The 30 aluminum tub cars where dug out and shipped east today,  Now only thing left west of Honda property now is the 110 aluminum rapid discharge cars - these are parked at the "pipeyard".  Still have a mix of hoppers, high side gons, and 2 bulkhead flats parked on main at Honda, just west of middle crossover.   I keep hoping they tell me to get these cars out of there.  Sooner or later.......

[arobb00]

The local to G'burg this afternoon had a bulkhead flat with a wrecked high-side gon on it.  Had what looked like ten or so cars, mix of gons mostly that I could see, and was just pulling into the Lowes spur with the train to switch NexGen tankers out.  Red geep for power.  I think Scraphauler mentioned the wreck-on-bulkead-flat was headed for Sunman in another post.  Well it will be there today!