This, he adds, is going on even as the class Is appear to be shrinking their marketing and sales resources. The Ohio Central's six lines in 1994 handled more than 19,000 carloads a year on less than 300 miles of track and it still growing. Like so many other expanding feeder line properties, OCRS looks for substantial revenue increases on the very lines spun off by the majors for want of traffic. In the last six years Ohio Central has brought sixteen new facilities on line. Some were brand new, some had lain fallow since before the class I sold the line.
Commodities range from a mixture of building products to aggregates and chemicals.
Roughly 5,400 cars per year. Now that's close to the customer. I at your peril. I, which means negotiating rates, car supply, scheduling, and service standards. Sadly, though, many class I managers from all departments have told me they wished the shortlines in their realms were more action oriented.