2LaneCruzer
Super Member
Funny thing about trains.... they are hard to track.
But in all seriousness, you can go online and see every commercial airplane in the sky at any given time. Where it came from, where it's at, where it's going, what type of plane it is, who owns it, the route it's taking, etc....
Can't do that with trains. May be for security reasons since 9/11. Who knows. But it's really hard to find out anything about where something being shipped by train exactly is at any given time. I'm sure the RR knows where it is, but they don't share that info with the public.
We used to get shipments of paper via rail from all over the place. The seller would tell us it shipped on X date. Expected to arrive by Y date. But it rarely showed up by Y date, especially if it had to go around Chicago. Several days later we'd get a call from the RR that they dropped a car at our warehouse last night.
Leonor F. Loree would be turning in his grave....
Two drunks were walking down the RR tracks.
First drunk: "Man, this is the longest staircase I've ever seen!"
Second drunk: "Yeah, but it's the low bannisters that killing me!"