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Actual start date: August 18, 2020
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ABOUT THIS FEED:
The settlement was first known as Big Sandy Switch because a stretch of the Texas and Pacific Railroad was built through the area and eventually intersected with a narrow-gauge railroad called the Tyler Tap.
There is no ATCS or radio in the area.
The former St. Louis Southwestern runs north-south, as the Pine Bluff Sub north (and then east) to Texarkana via Pittsburg and Mount Pleasant, and as the Corsicana Sub southwest to its namesake Corsicana via Tyler. The former Texas & Pacific runs east-west, as the Mineola Sub, route of Amtrak's Texas Eagle, between Dallas and Texarkana, via Mineola, Longview, Marshall, and Jefferson.
UP PINE BLUFF Subdivison is one directional. All trains go one way which Westbound. UP MINEOLA SUBDIVISION is BI Directorial both west and East and the UP Corsicana SUBDIVISION is all directional traffic unless it's the local out of MINEOLA Texas or Tyler Texas.
Big Sandy is in between the Texas Eagle station stops of Mineola and Longview, and is also a crew change point.
Info from 6 years ago indicate an average of around 20 trains per day on the Mineola Sub: 9 intermodals, 2 autorack units, and 9 manifests at that time, not including the Eagle (1 per direction per day, total of 2).
Corsicana/Pine Bluff Sub is directional running, all trains run timetable westbound, 2014 data shows 10 trains per day on average, 4 intermodal, 2 autorack units, and 4 manifests.
About 32 trains a day pass through Big Sandy.
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