newbie train spotter here. wondering if there is such thing has a public freight schedule of when trains will arrive where? just wondering so that i can go out and see the train pass by without having to sit there all day. thanks!
Very few freights run on any kind of a schedule once they're out of their originating terminal. The times that trains will be coming and going is not available to the public, not unless you got friends with access to that kind of information.
My bad...Get the intermodal there on time or lose the contract. Intermodal train X should be by you between xx:xx and xx:xx within scheduled tolerance. Get the beast manifest train out of the ORIGINATING yard on time so the managers get their performance bonus, after that...who cares? "Tower to the MTUEW, you guys ready to go yet...over". "Noooooo, your boys are still air testing it...still blue flagged...over." Oh I loved saying "NO", cause somewhere in the yard sitting in a jeep liberty was a manager just squirming about on-time performance. If any of the manifests I pulled out of Tucson had a schedule, they must of had about 3 days for tolerance.