- 1. [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "railbass" <railbass@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:31:11 -0600
- What are lumber rollers? I have never heard this term before. - John Manion Denver, CO _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#61828) | Reply To
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- 2. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:33:48 -0500
- 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 fro
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- 3. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 08:25:51 -0700
- Rollers were the result of a practice known as diversions. This was the system by which shippers were allowed to divert cars in transit with their commodities to alternate destinations to obtain a be
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- 4. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "mike cafferata" <mcaff1952@outlook.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:42:40 +0000
- And the practice continues today. I diverted 2 tank car loads this week to accommodate a customer’s priority needs. We were able to shave off a week+ by diverting cars that were already enroute
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- 5. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "jpslhedgpeth via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:19:52 +0000 (UTC)
- Another t hought pertaining to the diversion matter. No one has yet mentioned the matter of "diversion" vs "reconsignment"..there is a significant difference. Diversion is the 'diverting" (I know tha
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- 6. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "jpslhedgpeth via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:26:05 +0000 (UTC)
- Well well I just now see that Mr. Chaparro just "duplicated and imbellilshed what I just wrote....He opened up ALL the INTRICATE AND EXPENSIVE' details which had to be carried out to get all this "te
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- 7. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "jpslhedgpeth via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:46:47 +0000 (UTC)
- Well well, I just had "another detail" to add to the details of railroads handling perishable products as Mr. Chaparro and I have touched on. Those claims were so complex and could create what were k
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- 8. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:53:56 -0500
- 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? -- David Streeter Pete Hedgpeth's story and Jack Schroed
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- 9. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:16:54 -0500
- And a few minutes after I asked the question, I found it had already been answered. Thanks. -- David Streeter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. Vie
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- 10. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:15:25 -0500
- Pete, I recently received from the Archives a Perishable Study that was done by the Q marketing department in 1967 about getting back bigger into the Perishable (non-Meat) business. They study states
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- 11. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:23:54 -0500
- _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#61852) | Reply To Group | Reply To Sender | Mute This Topic | New Topic Your Subscription | Contact Group O
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- 12. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "leakinmywaders via groups.io" <leakinmywaders=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 22:36:11 -0700
- So maybe the profitability of the perishables business differed according to what shippers were located online? Right through the 1960s the NP was still investing in expensive mechanical reefers, ACF
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- 13. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:00:54 -0500
- One of the major costs listed in the 1967 CB&Q Perishable Report was getting cars to the C&NW Wood St. Produce Facility in Chicago. That quickly ate away any profit on the carload for the Q. The repo
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- 14. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:45:40 -0500
- 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 do
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- 15. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack Schroeder" <jack@highlandwebworks.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:40:21 -0500
- 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
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- 16. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:48:39 -0500
- Charlie, The study has numbers for cars handled at Chicago for Racine Avenue, the Chicago Produce Terminal, Wood Street (C&NW) and set at an industrial siding. There is a table of out of pocket costs
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- 17. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:48:25 -0500
- 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 locatio
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- 18. Re: [CBQ] Rollers (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:47:02 -0500
- Russ Strodtz posted on the former Rail Freight Yahoo group several days of Q interchange at Congress Park from 1959 based on conductor switch lists he had. There is a quite the volume of daily traffi
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