Michael- I am copying this to three other groups that might be interested in and have the answers to this question. The CB&Q had major interests in the REA. I earier asked why the CB&Q, unlike other
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:10:24 -0800 (PST)
Charlie The answer is pretty simple. The Q did not operate any refrigerator cars(at least after the REA started). All of it's reefers were transferred to the Burlington Refrigerator Express. Although
My question still stands.. ..when I was working on the Broadway Limited GACX Express Reefer project, I noticed that many roads had Express Reefers..either apparently leased from General American of a
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:38:56 -0800 (PST)
Charlie The Q was not in the refrigerator car business, period. They did not deem it profitable to lease cars to the REA. Dollars and cents made the difference. The rate of return on investment of le
John- Even if the Q made the determination that it wasnt going to own or rent Express Reefers (BREX handling the normal freight reefer business) it still seems odd that they would not have the traffi
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:28:09 -0800 (PST)
Charlie That's not exactly how it worked. The railroad owned express reefers i.e. ATSF etc., were leased to REA not on a mileage basis but on a time basis. This is a so-called "gross lease". The owni
This little conversation should help the "newbies" to the railroad business understand why it took "battalions" of clerks in pre computer days to keep track of this stuff....Also some clerk deep in t
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:42:53 -0800 (PST)
I remember looking through annual reports to the stockholders and seeing things like the total miles of engines in yard service and thinking, my gosh, some clerk looked at all of those daily reports
John I remember reporting engine hours for yard work, but never miles...I think maybe they used a "flat figure" for switch engine miles computed from number of hours worked multiplied by whatever tha
I remember looking through annual reports to the stockholders and seeing things like the total miles of engines in yard service and thinking, my gosh, some clerk looked at all of those daily reports