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Group, Let me take this in a slightly different direction, but I think, still on topic. I worked for 30+ years for the General Motors Parts Division in a local parts warehouse (Parts Distribution Center). Our function was to supply dealerships with genuine GM parts. If you remember the Goodwrench jingle "Keep that great GM feeling with genuine GM parts!" that was us. Our warehouse was located in Broadview, IL on the Indiana Harbor Belt. We received our inbound loads via 40 & 50 foot boxcars, mostly eastern roads. I never saw anything larger. With that, my guess is that the larger cars were used to transport parts between the manufacturers/suppliers and the assembly plants. Larry Owen Bolingbrook, IL Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Date: 8/6/16 10:58 AM (GMT-06:00) To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] 60 ft and 86 ft Auto Parts Box Cars
Tom, I have not seen any of these cars in actual consists that have
been posted. You might recall the recent Trains magazine article
about the BN merger. In the article, it says the BN had no online
auto plants that it served. That reduces the possibility of these
cars showing up regularly on the Q. The Q did contribute cars to
auto plant and auto part pools. The recent Operations SIG
publication Dispatchers Office had a several page article by Brian
Holtz about RBL pool cars for the Schlitz breweries. The railroads
made money on these cars because they were in constant service,
paid daily per diem, and often never saw their home rails. I've
read in books and articles about the GB&W that many auto parts
cars to the Twin Cities would take the Ann Arbor ferry across Lake
Michigan to the GB&W. It avoided the Chicago congestion and
was faster. That was the primary lifeblood of the GB&W. They
could easily turn these cars over the MILW at Winona. When
deregulation came, the railroads changed rate structures and that
was the end of the ferries and pretty much the beginning of the
end of the GB&W as then existed. There was also a C&O
ferry to Milwaukee which cars could be turned directly to the MILW
for hauling to Ford plant in the Twin Cities. Bill Hirt On 8/5/2016 5:00 PM, thommack@yahoo.com
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