You are right, it was yak fat! One of the problems of
being old enough to remember the late "great" ICC, is
your memory goes. Old man Rath of Rath Packing Co.
(and an ICRR Director) is said to have been behind it.
John
--- zephyr9903 <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT), John D.
> Mitchell, Jr. wrote
>
>
> (in part)
> > Someday, I'll tell the listers about the famous
> > "Yak butter" case.
> (end quote)
>
> For those of you with access to a collection of
> Trains Magazine, John won't
> have to tell the story - it was written up in the
> mag. A tongue-in-cheek
> filing by a railroad for a special tariff for the
> shipping of (I believe it
> was "Yak Fat" rather than "Yak Butter", John, for
> reasons which will become
> clear in a couple of sentences)
>
> Naturally, truckers counterfiled with a challenge
> that the railroad rate was
> unfair and non-competitive, and the whole thing went
> through the entire
> appeals process (just to avoid a precedent for
> unchallenged rates), with the
> RR, the truckers AND the ICC knowing it was all
> stock car sweepings. The
> TRAINS article was illustrated by a delightful
> cartoon (Gil Reid, maybe)
> showing his proposed design for a "Yak Fat Rack
> Flat", which I was *sorely*
> tempted to model at the time. I suspect a search of
> the Kalmbach magazine
> index would give you issue and page.
>
> Did anyone else try modeling a YakFat Rack Flat???
>
> Marshall Thayer
> Mt. Pleasant, IA
>
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