To Paul's question of the number of consists that used to have less variety - Just an opinion, but besides the increased level of specialization, I'd guess that a big factor is that much of the freight that now goes by truck and used to go by rail were the kind of loads that would have gone in boxcars when going by rail. The total percent of boxcar type shipments compared to others would probably have been a lot higher then. Also, today the "boxcar stuff" that does go by rail is very likely to be in containers rather than boxcars. Watching freights as a kid in the early 50's, my memories are of strings of boxcars (& reefers) as far as the eye could see broken infrequently by open hoppers, gondolas, flats or small tankers. Anything else was a rare surprise. (In central NY that is) ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------ End of Erielack Digest V2 #211 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to "majordomo_@_internexus.net" with the command unsubscribe erielack-digest in the BODY of the message. To switch to the regular version of the list, include the command subscribe erielack as the second line in the e-mail described above.
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