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Old 08-22-2024, 01:47 PM   #13533
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
From my experience as someone who gets a lot of freight moved through rail, the scheduling is brutal.

We can have a rail car parked 200 feet down the road on an empty rail line, but it won't give moving 200 feet over towards our siding to unload because 'schedule.'

We move about 2000-3000 cars a month on the CN and all they are looking at is network efficiency and velocity. They don't give two ####s about customer service. More employees won't mean better service, they'd need to invest in infrastructure and power as well to get really incremental gains on freight moved.
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