Was this going on before computers came along? If so, how did they
manage to send the updated waybills to the correct location to act on them?
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David Streeter
On 4/12/2021 7:33 PM, William Hirt wrote:
John,
Pete Hedgpeth's story and Jack Schroeder's post about his experience
explains most of it.
The best way to think of it is that the boxcar was a rolling
warehouse. A broker would buy the load from a lumber producer and then
attempt to find a buyer while the car was enroute. A lot of these
"rollers" took circular routes on connected branch lines that would
gain an extra day or two each time this happened to sell the load on
it's way to it's supposed destination point. The Northwestern Modeler
I mentioned in another message said one of the favorite routings for
lumber brokers was on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern as that
could easily add two days of transit time and more time to sell the
load. Once the load was sold, the waybill would be changed to give
the car the most direct routing to the customer.
In the 1970s, the C&NW used the old major CGW yard at Oelwein IA to
store these lumber cars. A friend of mine who was summer relief
engineer there related the same type story as Pete Hedgpeth did
spending an entire night cherry picking lumber cars out of the yard
whose loads had been finally been sold.
Bill Hirt
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