Precision Scheduled Railroading
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Creel: Leaving rail cars behind causes compounding weekly network inefficiencies
“Well, if on Tuesday, I miss 10 cars, well, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, that pressure builds up, and I have more trains than I have capacity, more demand cars than I have trains to move it on. Going back to what I said, one train a day, It's all defined on …”
Creel: Precision Scheduled Railroading cut CP's active locomotives by one-third
“At CP, when we implemented Precision Scheduled Railroad back in 2012, 2013 we were running with 1500 locomotives in service a day. Today we're moving more freight With about two-thirds of that, so a thousand to 1100.”
Creel: The ideal rail siding design is 12,000 feet every 15 miles
“The perfect design, or at least in my 30 years of experience doing this, is having a 10 or 12,000 foot siding every 15 miles. That allows you the right spacing to be able to sequence trains, run long trains, make train meets, and still be efficient.”