By William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; December 11, 2018
On Monday Feb. 11, 2019, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific—both of which are rolling out their own versions of Precision Scheduled Railroading—will deploy jointly developed new routing protocols for domestic and international intermodal interline services.
NS, in a Dec. 7 bulletin to customers, called the changes, which apply to westbound traffic, “part of our ongoing efforts to improve our interline services.” NS’s changes, illustrated below in two matrices (Domestic and International), affect nearly 260 interchange points involving more than 20 NS origin terminals. Only 26 domestic interchange points will retain interline service; no international interline service will be available. Customers have the option of providing their own truck drayage and rebilling. Any traffic in-gated on or after 12:01 AM, Feb. 11, 2019 will be handled in accordance with the new routing protocols, NS said. Traffic in-gated before midnight on February 10, 2019, will be handled according to the current plan.
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