There are a bunch of NP Wheel Reports on this web site from 1968:
<http://2-8-2.com/wheelreports/>
They include both east and west bound NP trains for trains in/out of
Jamestown ND. There is an incomplete NP station list you can use to
partially decode the consists. I've not been interested enough to do a
set of spreadsheets breaking all down (especially since the NP Station
List is incomplete), but the eastbounds to me still show the same
distribution as the GN Wheel Reports out of the Twin Cities. I'm not
sure if a NP load went east out of the Twin Cities on the C&NW, CGW or
SOO why it would not in most cases come back the same way as a load or
empty. I doubt the Q or Q co-owner NP would be very happy if the C&NW,
CGW, or SOO would take the revenue load and try to slough off the
non-revenue empties to the Q for the return to the Twin Cities.
Bill Hirt
On 4/11/2021 9:34 AM, leakinmywaders via groups.io wrote:
If these empties were blocked for NP and GN before they were sent to
the Twin Cities, this probably saved a great deal of switching time
there. On the NP large blocks of lumber and plywood-suitable empties
went on all the way west to Auburn. From there they were pooled,
sorted and doled out to customers on the west end fairly quickly.
Chris Frissell
Polson, MT.
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