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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Rollers
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:33:48 -0500
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John,

Pete Hedgpeth's story and Jack Schroeder's post about his experience explains most of it.
The best way to think of it is that the boxcar was a rolling warehouse. 
A broker would buy the load from a lumber producer and then attempt to 
find a buyer while the car was enroute. A lot of these "rollers" took 
circular routes on connected branch lines that would gain an extra day 
or two each time this happened to sell the load on it's way to it's 
supposed destination point. The Northwestern Modeler I mentioned in 
another message said one of the favorite routings for lumber brokers was 
on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern as that could easily add two 
days of transit time and more time to sell the load.  Once the load was 
sold, the waybill would be changed to give the car the most direct 
routing to the customer.
In the 1970s, the C&NW used the old major CGW yard at Oelwein IA to 
store these lumber cars. A friend of mine who was summer relief engineer 
there related the same type story as Pete Hedgpeth did spending an 
entire night cherry picking lumber cars out of the yard whose loads had 
been finally been sold.
Bill Hirt

On 4/12/2021 11:31 AM, railbass wrote:
What are lumber rollers?  I have never heard this term before.
- John Manion
  Denver, CO


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