Top 3 Reasons Fewer Trains Street Running In LaGrange Kentucky! Where Did The Trains Go? CSX L&N

Where did the trains go and why are there fewer trains on CSX main line between Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio? Is the railroad being abandoned? I'm talking about the street running trains in LaGrange, Kentucky on the ex Louisville & Nashville Railway LCL Sub known as The Short Line. This CSX line is very busy and always will be although trains have become fewer and fewer. There are quite a few reasons for this but 3 in particular have really had an impact. Precision Scheduled Railroading or PSR is a big reason. Just look at how huge the train in this video is. It is almost 2 and a half miles long! This train has Distributed Power Units ( DPU ) near the middle. This train is literally 2 trains in one with only one crew instead of 2. PSR results in longer and fewer trains. Obviously this is done to save money. Another big reason for fewer trains in the virus. Less freight is being shipped during the virus and that reduces the need for some trains. Production is down which results in less money to go around and less products being purchased which further reduces the need for trains. Another reason for fewer trains on this route is the fact that CSX is rerouting trains through Indiana on the Louisville & Indiana Railroad L&I. So far the reroute effect has been minimal. L&I is still working on their tracks. They have installed heavy welded rail, worked on passing tracks, continuing to install new ballast and they are strengthening bridges and track to meet current standard for 286,000 pound rail cars. Some CSX trains have been rerouted over this line but many more will be once the track work is complete. More northbounds than southbounds are being rerouted but CSX does have another line between Louisville and Cincinnati that is used almost entirely for northbound trains. Okay, so these are the 3 main reasons for fewer trains. There are other reasons also such as the loss of freight such as coal. The war on coal has made a huge impact on railroad lines that live on coal and that spills over onto just about all the mainlines. One my favorite railroads, the TTI, was a coal hauler and their line shut down after their primary customer which was a power plant had switched from coal to natural gas. Another thing that I noticed about the trains in LaGrange is that most of them run in darkness. If you are in LaGrange between midnight and 5am you are pretty much guaranteed to see several trains. Go there between noon and 4pm and you are lucky to see one train. I noticed that the local ( Runaround Sue ) operates usually on M-W-F before noon but that is a short train and if they aren't making a pickup ( at the customer 4 miles west of LaGrange ) they won't even pass through town. That local goes through LaGrange to runaround their train and return south. Most days you can count on between 7-9 trains passing through town but I have seen as few as 6 and as many as 10. This could change at any time and will change for sure sometime in the near future. I read a few articles about this in Trains Magazine but those articles were written before the virus. One more thing I want to mention is the train speed through town. Trains are required to go 10 mph until the locomotives clear the streets. After that they can resume track speed up to 25 mph. Train frequencies are listed in the video. The train in this video was 13,282 feet long! I filmed this on November 9, 2020. Thanks for watching!
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