current economy and your freights

[aztek4two1]

have any of you noticed a recent decline in volume at your spots?
just wondering to see if you all are having similar problems.

shoot it.

-kadeem hardisson

[bigdork]

yes! yards not as full, stuff not layed up as much, kids still paint and crush the few cars that are there, stupid, oh well

[StemIgwt]

The security in my areas yards has been hightened. After 3 years of benching and stuff, i was stoped and IDed by a worker yesterday!

[my sweetheart, the drunk]

yards out this way are dry dry dry dry. word to the illest dwayne...unless you are looking for fat, classical music listening, robert duval looking railfans pissed about only catching 1 train in 4 hours.

[Cracked Ass]

What bigdork said.

[Ski Mask]

suprisingly I've seen next to no impact on traffic around here. However, most of the industries served here are those whose demand is constant...staple products. Textiles, Lumber, etc.

[oilcanloyd]

well... im happy to say that ive noticed the opposite round here,
weve been getting alot of stuff i usually never see! lines dont stay too long ,wich is good for the most part but sucks if you want to get some flix in the AM . sorry bout yer shitty luck folks.:o

[Mako]

were getting new road cars not frequent here, but its slower and the carlines made( forgot what the official name is) seem to stay around longer.

[alabama]

yeah....several of our favorite spots down here have been empty for quite some time....half of the night (sometimes the whole night) may be wasted trying to find something to paint on...

[chester copperpot]

over here things have been extremely dry since spring. main yards that usually have 12 lines have had a pretty consistant 3 or 4 lines for the last few months, not many holyrollers around like usual. a lot of the layups around town have been empty, and not as many live lines stop anymore. havn't really been able to do too much these past few months. the BN yards dont seem to have been effected like the UP ones though. strange that other cities are suffering as well, all these trains have to be hiding out somewhere, right ? has the west coast, canada, and the east coast been effected like the midwest and south ? ..

[BIG T]

not much of a change around here...... the yards may look a little low, but i know all the spots they hide the trains:D

[aztek4two1]

thanks for the responses

[T.T Boy]

out in mid west canada i guess you could say, things are busy as usual, lots of traffic, and lots of new stuiff weve never seen before, lot sof american stuff actually.

[nocalfr8tr]

trains haven't been sticking around as long in northern cali. the railroad is trying to be better business men and get customers their product quicker, plus a lot of the trains are being parker in yards with higher security...i'll take what i can get, though.

[BROWNer]

my local yard is goin' down..other means of transporting goods has
slowly beat down the rail company...its only a matter of time till it gets closed..

[I_Love_Freights]

Many of our layups out this way have been empty everytime we go to them and we have to hit one of the major yards in the area. I don't know what it is, but the area is starting to get DRY as fuck. Its annoying, but we still have many places to paint, it just means we have to go a little farther to do them. Oh well...

[BIG T]

Originally posted by BIG T
not much of a change around here...... the yards may look a little low, but i know all the spots they hide the trains:D

I take that all back!!!!!! maybe it was just a fluke weekend.... but i had real trouble finding a train to paint... i spent 4 hours on sunday doing nothing but driving around looking for a spot to paint, all empty, or trains already rocked...... what the fuck i thought the stock market was going back up!!!!!:confused: :confused: :confused:

[Fox Mulder]

the thing i don't understand is they aren't removing trains from service. they are still out there somewhere.