(Source: Opinion column by Jim Blaze published at FreightWaves.com, September 2, 2020)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — It was an oncoming surge of maritime boxes that has clearly caught the two big Western state railroads BNSF and Union Pacific a bit off guard. How did the railroad asset planners miss that? Or did they see it and somehow just not get themselves reset operationally? Why so long a delay to restore assets like crews, locomotives and cars to the rich, recovering targets? Regardless of the cause, both railroad companies seemed to have found themselves in a bottleneck or congestion situation. They cannot seem to satisfy customer demand.
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