Thank you, this is a great help.
Pat
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Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:40 PM
Subject: [CBQ] empty cars
> I'll try and provide some of the answers on mty cars you are asking .
> Keep
> in mind that this applies only to "free runners" not cars assigned to
> pools, in dedicated service or private marked cars.
>
> From my days in the "White House or G.O." in Chicago the ultimate
> distribution of mtys was under the control of car distributors at the
> G.O.
> Customers contacted agents who contacted the car distibutor. The car
> distributor
> then did his best to fill the car order based on priority,profitablility,
> etc.
>
> Yes an agent can tell the local crew or engine to pull an mty from one
> industry and set it at another for loading. Of course the car distributor
> may
> have had another request for the car.
>
> The clearest example I was involved in was while working the Earlville
> Turn. We spotted a new combine at Earlville for the implement company. A
> couple days later the flat car was mty and we pulled it and took it
> directly to
> Cat in Montgomery and placed it on the loading dock that night. Next night
> we pulled it as a load of Cat wheel loaders. Hows that for utilization?
>
> At this time of year,back in the day, the Condr on locals was also his
> own
> car distributor . Each elevator would be screaming for cars,each agent of
> course sent the cries to the car distributors who had as many mtys as
> possible shifted and stationed for grain loading. The classification
> yards would
> fill each local w/grain mtys and the Condr would be the ultimate judge of
> how many cars each elevator received.
>
> How you ask? It has to do a little bit with the payoffs left on the back
> step of the w/c before the wayfreight left town. The currency was
> cigarettes,booze,etc. The better the gratuity the more cars delivered.
>
> I'm sure there's much more detail involved but thats about the extent of
> my exposure on mty car allocations.
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
> Gentlemen,
> I have learned a lot from this group so let me pose a question on the
> handling of empty freight cars. I know that when shipper needs a car, he
> orders
> it from the nearest agent and a car is delivered, per specifications for
> loading. I know that when a loaded car is deivered, there is a time limit
> for the shipper to empty the car ane return it to the railroad before a
> late
> fee is charged. I think it is our days. My questions are who directs the
> pick up of the emtpy car, where is is sent and how is is accounted for by
> the
> railroad and who actually orders an emtpy car to be delivered.
> Further, can an station agent, who had a need for an empty car, simply
> take one just released, inform the Traffic Deptratment (?) that he has
> done so
> and take place said car at another local shipper?
> This seems like and area many modelers overlook or do not handle properly
> in our quest for realistic operations. Thank you for your assistance.
>
>
>
>
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