[CBQ] Weighing Cars ?

["Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>]

When I worked the Rochelle,IL night road switcher in 1973 and in Eola yard in 
1974 some cars were required to be weighed. The tallow cars out of Swift at 
Rochelle went to Rockford to be weighed and then back to be picked up for 
further transit. At Eola I recall weighing scrap loads in the east yard .

I also remember the stories of weighing all the sand loads out of Ottawa Silica 
and the gravel loads out of Sheridan for hours at a time. 

But then later everything seemed to be shown as carload, noted as C/L with a 
further notation of “shippers weight and count” on waybills.

When and why was the weighing of cars no longer required ? Was it as simple as 
going to a flat carload price by commodity, whether the shipper fully loaded 
the car or not ?

Leo Phillipp

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