Re: [CBQ] Rollers

["Jack Schroeder" <jack@highlandwebworks.com>]

    Charlie:
    I think you need to know operating costs but also what the
    negotiated division of revenue was for each move/interchange point.
    The Q may have had an agreement with the C&NW for this location
    dating back years that made it a loser.  Why didn't they change the
    division?  It was often a dangerous move to try and renegotiate
    divisions as it could open up pressure from the C&NW in a
    tit-for-tat situation at another location division where the
    C&NW were losing money with the movement Q. In other words the
    'Q' may have had a sweet division some where else with C&NW that
    would be placed on the table subject to loss in the renegotiation
    for the Potato Yard.  Rate divisions were handled at the highest
    managerial levels of marketing/pricing. They had a big and long term
    impact on profits.

Jack Schroeder
817 485-1922
jack@highlandwebworks.com

On 4/14/2021 2:45 PM, Charlie Vlk wrote:

All-

Those on the list that have better information can comment on why it was so unprofitable for the CB&Q to deliver cars to the C&NW Wood Street “Potato Yard”….

Seems to me the problem might be the double transfer from Clyde…..to Western Avenue, then to a transfer from there (using the SCAL?) to Wood Street.  Would shipper routing prohibited the Q from handing off the car to the IHB Congress Park/C&NW Proviso/Wood Street or using a C&NW transfer run from Clyde?

Charlie Vlk

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