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Velocity profit multiplier jim fink
Velocity profit multiplier jim fink













Instead of taking the 'same old same old' shot (see the coal train above and some five or six other near-identical setups I've taken) I decided to be unique. Me, for my part, thought I'd do something a little different.

velocity profit multiplier jim fink

In several ways.įirst, I'd forgotten the new speed limit, "fast" and the new mantra "velocity equals profit." While he passed the Rapides Station Road crossing at a meager 10 mph (I'm guessing the xing still needs some work to make it fully functional at speed) he goosed that 15,000 horsepower triad he had control over and by the time he'd reached Boyce he was doing a good 50. Three units up front, I've no idea what the numbers were because, well, I was being foolish. Again, VERY unusual for this area and these tracks, but what with the repairs in place.voila! Heavier trains can now move faster through this area. I clocked out, meandered to the parking lot and saw.a stack train. Five o'clock came around, and I heard a train the crossing. This SD90MAC surprised me, it's the first one I've seen in many months out here, and it's strange, hunchbacked look is always an odd, surprising sight. I'm pleased to report that the shipments, which I'm told come from coal fields as far north as Wyoming, are now passing through CP Mallin in Pineville and northwest into Boyce, where they used to pass through Shreveport to Rodemacher, then the empties would cross Alexandria and into Pineville via Mallin, thence back to Wyoming for a refill. This is one of the coal trains headed to Rodemacher. A day.īut now the ties are fresh, the rails are at the proper geometry, and the speed limit is up, up, up! Which makes it tough to catch trains, I can tell you.

velocity profit multiplier jim fink

The crews working were costing Union Pacific, he told me, one hundred thousand dollars.

velocity profit multiplier jim fink

The speed limit, he told me, was down to an average of 20mph for these two areas, and "velocity equals profit." If the trains can't go fast then the money is held up.

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The immense weight of these trains, he told me, was responsible for a heavy deterioration of the tracks, so this massive effort was required to upgrade the ties, the substrate, crossings, everything but the rails.

velocity profit multiplier jim fink

I was out one morning toward the end of the repair cycle and happened to start chatting with the crew super, a really nice guy indeed.* He told me that there were a total of five crews working at the same time on the same two stretches of road-the section around Alexandria leading to Rodemacher's coal-fired power plant and the section of road around Shreveport, a major hub for shipping out cars filled with quarried rock. The traffic, you see, has been at a bare minimum whole days have gone by without a single bit of traffic except for repair equipment. Union Pacific has been doing a lot of maintenance here of late, which has kept me from doing a lot of spotting. You'll notice the ongoing theme here is repairs and fog. They were there to pick up five gangs worth of repair equipment, and the fog that morning was thick as fleas on an old hound. That's what a crew supervisor told me one morning early as I watched an SP unit pass the parked BNSF that was waiting for the crew he'd just dropped off.













Velocity profit multiplier jim fink