Bellevue Expansion Jerry Hall Vice President Network & Service Management
Freight Wants to Move through Bellevue
Bellevue Expansion Current Handling Philadelphia Area to BNSF Handling & Dwell Locations: Camden Conway Elkhart Chicago
Bellevue Expansion Handling after expansion Philadelphia Area to BNSF Handling & Dwell Locations: Camden Bellevue
Bellevue Expansion Current Handling Southeast to UP (Pacific Northwest) Handling & Dwell Locations: Chattanooga Elkhart Chicago
Bellevue Expansion Handling after expansion Southeast to UP (Pacific Northwest) Handling & Dwell Locations: Chattanooga Bellevue
Tools to Measure and Understand Traffic Flows ABC Algorithmic Blocking & Classification What does it do? For each waybill, it identifies the classification codes to generate the shortest shipment route based on minimum miles and handlings.
Tools to Measure and Understand Traffic Flows - OPD Operating Plan Developer What does it do? Enables NS to quantify the impact to car miles, train miles, circuitous miles, crew requirements, car handling, etc. of a proposed service plan before the plan is executed.
Norfolk Southern Production Yards Elkhart Conway Allentown Bellevue Enola Sheffield Knoxville Chattanooga Linwood Birmingham Macon
Future Operating Plan Train/Volume Changes Terminal Bellevue, OH Elkhart, IN Conway, PA Columbus, OH (Watkins) Trains Handled +/- Originating +13/+72% Terminating +12/+75% Originating -8/-36% Terminating -5/-26% Originating -7/-50% Terminating -9/-60% Originating -2/-50% Terminating -1/-33% Daily Terminal Volume Change +1,300/81% -607/-30% -607/-40% -93/-35%
TOP Trains By Line Segment Line Segment Current Trains Operated Future Trains Operated B1 - Toledo 12 16/ +33% B2- Sandusky 5 9/ +80% L3 Ft Wayne 23 26/ +13% L8 - Columbus 25 31/ +24% L2 - Cleveland 14 22/ +57%
Traffic Routing Change Example Moraine, OH to Kirk Yard, IN (CN) CURRENT PLAN KIRK YARD ELKHART BELLEVUE The new Bellevue Operating Plan reduces transit by one day and eliminates a handling at Elkhart. MORAINE
Traffic Routing Change Example Bellevue, OH to Detroit, MI CURRENT PLAN DETROIT ELKHART The new Bellevue Operating Plan reduces transit by 2.3 days and eliminates a handling at Elkhart. BELLEVUE
Block Swap of Union Pacific traffic at Elkhart, IN 35E (Enroute 6 Hours Later) UP Chicago, IL Elkhart, IN Chicago, IL At Elkhart, 33E will set off UP Chicago, IL cars that block swap to 35E saving a day of transit. Bellevue, OH 33E UP Chicago, IL UP North Platte, NE
Projected Savings Categories Chicago Area Railroad Savings Train Overhead Savings Yard Locomotive Savings Network Savings
Chicago Terminal Savings
Redundancy Reduce Overhead Train Savings Each winter a significant number of trains are re-routed as a result of weather in northern Indiana. When Bellevue opens in the fourth quarter, the need to overhead will be eliminated by newly created capacity at Bellevue, Conway, and Elkhart.
Network Savings The savings associated with the Bellevue expansion include: Car and Road Locomotive Savings Locomotive Maintenance and Ownership Savings Car Hire per Diem/Mileage Savings Mechanical Cost Savings Crew Cost Savings Terminal Cost Savings Total Engineering Expense
Bellevue Construction Mark Dewberry Chief Engineer Design & Construction
LINWOOD, NC HUMP CONSTRUCTION
New Track - 38.5 Miles Turnouts - 149 Buildings (3) 11,340 sq ft Service Roads 10.4 Miles Power Switches 162 Hump Control System
Receiving Tracks GENERATORS
Hump
Class Tracks
Pullback Tracks
Westbound Forwarding Tracks Eastbound Forwarding Tracks
New Track - 38.5 Miles Turnouts - 149 Buildings (3) 11,340 sq ft Service Roads 10.4 Miles Power Switches 162 Hump Control System
MINI-PLANT
MINI-PLANT
1967 AERIAL IMAGE
CLASS YARD
4 CONDUIT INSTALLATION GROUP 8 SKATE RETARDER
GROUP 10 SKATE RETARDER
DRAINAGE WORK
CUTTING IN ADMIN BUILDING E4 MAIN
ELECTRICAL CONDUIT HIGH MAST TOWERS
NEW RANGER TOWER
SOIL NAIL BENCH 3 SHOTCRETE
SOIL NAIL WALL
ACCESS TUNNEL UNDER TRACKS
ACCESS TUNNEL
PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL
TUNNEL HOUSE (CREW CHANGE)
WALL REINFORCEMENT PVC FOR FRONT FACE WALL POUR
TYING STEEL FOR WALERS
INSTALLING ROCK ANCHOR
DRILLED SHAFT FORWARD ABUTMENT FOOTING
DRILLED SHAFTS
UNDER CAR SHOP ACCESS ROAD BRIDGE
CAR SHOP ACCESS ROAD & BRIDGE
CAR SHOP ACCESS ROAD & BRIDGE
CLASS YARD MAY 2013
Bellevue NEW RANGER TOWER
CLASS YARD JULY 2013
CLASS YARD AUGUST 2013
CLASS YARD SEPTEMBER 2013
CLASS YARD OCTOBER 2013
CLASS YARD NOVEMBER 2013
CLASS YARD DECEMBER 2013
CLASS YARD JULY 2014
CLASS YARD JULY 2014
DIAMOND CROSSOVER
DIAMOND CROSSOVER
DIAMOND CROSSOVER
Switch Heaters Switch heaters and Pole Lights Switch heaters and Pole Lights Pole Lights Ranger Tower, Lighting Control Panel, NX Plant Bungalow New switch heaters Air compressors and C&S computers Hump Retarders and Lights New switch heaters High-mast lights, new switch heaters, new master retarder and group retarders Locomotive Shop Equip. Building Admin Building and Communications Room Admin Building and Hump Tower CLASS YARD GENERATORS
CUMMINS COMMISSIONING DG88-3
CLASS YARD LAP TURNOUT
RETARDER
SETTING RECEIVING END GROUP 6 (LOOKING EAST)
MASTER RETARDER (LOOKING WEST)
RETARDERS
RETARDERS
RETARDERS
RETARDERS
RETARDERS
RETARDERS
LINWOOD, NORTH CAROLINA
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Process Improvements for Operations Donald D. Graab Vice President - Mechanical
Process Improvements Continue Crew Redistricting Movement Planner- UTCS LEADER (Locomotive Engineer And Display Event Recorder) NGauge Terminal Improvement Project 24 Terminals Complete to Date NSight Car and Locomotive Shops
Mechanical Department s Lean Program
People Process
People Side of Lean Respect for Employees Consensus Decision Making Developing Employee Engagement Trust Shared Goals Coming off a 3 Year Behavioral Leadership Initiative Ideal Foundation for Advancing Lean Principles Better Way to Manage
How Do We Adapt Principles Developed on an Automobile Assembly Line to a Locomotive Shop?
Begin By Teaching the Seven Wastes Waiting Overproduction Excess Inventory Unnecessary Transport Unnecessary Movement Over Processing Defects
Five (Lean) Principles 5S (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) Level the Load Standardize the Work Reduce Set Up Time Visual Management
Level the Load Car Maintenance Stabilize the flow of cars to the repair tracks Regular Predictable Switching Sort Cars for Shop Efficiencies Adjust headcount for >median - not the peak Balance the workforce Seven Days per Week Operation
Car Maintenance Personnel
Cars Out of Service for Maintenance $1.5 Million Reduction in Car Hire
People Process Problem Solving
- A Problem Solving Environment No One knows the Work Better than the Employees engages Employees in the Work Place The Eighth Waste Unused Employee Creativity
In Closing NGauge Terminals - Shops