Yes that article does appear dated. Here's a link to a related Altamont Enterprise June 1, 2022 article which exhibits a considerable amount of research of historic ops date for CSX trains operating through Voorheesville but doesn't shed any more light on expected NS/CSX track work start date: "Long railroad waits are already here"
https://altamontenterprise.com/06012022 ... ready-here
Provocative excerpt:
In recent Teamster testimony submitted to the Surface Transportation Board on urgent issues in freight rail service, the union included a list of the longest trains on CSX’s rails during the first quarter of 2022. Of the 10 longest trains operated by CSX during the first three months of his year, two had New York State departure locations [presumably Selkirk] including the carrier’s longest, a 377-car 4.57-mile-long behemoth that departed Schenectady and headed west for Indiana [presumably Avon Yard at Indy].
Sidebar 1: current NS Engineering Curfew map on its corporate website shows only spot curve rail replacement MoW activity just north of Binghamton on the D&H.
Sidebar 2: in my frequent observations of NS Chicago-Ayer IM train 264 (and 22K before the symbol change) passing the Elkhart live cam, the # of single stacked containers in the Ayer block typically averages 50-60 each day (or < a half mile of double stacked containers).
Lastly there’s this
https://www.railwayage.com/freight/cla ... -n-y-mass/