Re: [CBQ] Transfer cars

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

Rupert-
I don't think they would have been used in "specials".....
This is all speculation on my part, but I think they were just provided to 
the furniture manufactures who loaded them up with goods going to the same 
area....
say towns along the same mainline... and the cars were loaded with the town 
order in mind.  The car would be spotted on the team track at each town or,
in the case of a small order, simply unloaded like an LCL car in a 
wayfreight.
The NP had some very long (60'??) two door boxcars used in LCL service so 
this must have been a common concept for the 1880s and 1890s.
Merry Christmas!
Charlie Vlk 



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