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Freight railroads generally have operated the same way for more than a century: They wait for cargo and leave when customers are ready. Now railroads want to run more like commercial airlines, where departure times are set. Factories, farms, mines or mills need to be ready or miss their trips.
Called "precision-scheduled railroading," or PSR, this new concept is cascading through the industry. Under pressure from Wall Street to improve performance, Norfolk Southern and other large U.S. freight carriers, including Union Pacific Corp. and Kansas City Southern, are trying to revamp their networks to use fewer trains and hold them to tighter schedules. The moves have sparked a stock rally that has added tens of billions of dollars to railroad values in the past six months as investors anticipate lower costs and higher profits.
Calling all Railroad Tycoons...
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 05 2019, @09:52PM
I'm a New Yorker and some days we have 2 or even 3 folks getting hit by the subway cars. It makes the news but, it's not big news when that happens. And, not a big deal for the Transit Authority guys. They run the windshield wiper, they do the little spray and life goes on, you know? A lot of the cars look rusty in the front, trust me it's not rust. And I guess you could have Einstein come in their with a very special instrument to measure the speed when somebody's getting whacked, I don't know.
But I'll tell you this. Nothing stops the Trump Train. And, nothing slows it down!!! 🚂