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RE: (erielack) Auto Racks

Pat,

I can't give you much specific info, as the consists list the flatcar 
(mostly TT) and not the rack. However I can tell you that all the Pocono 
Chryslers came out of Buffalo, and it appears all came off N&W. Oddly 
enough, there are several N&W cars among the mostly TT's (and one Cotton 
Belt); I wasn't aware N&W owned 89' flatcars (but SP-SSW did). I don't know 
where the Chrysler assembly plants are/were, or what route they took to 
Buffalo: Wabash, NKP or both.

Except for one or two Buffalos, Ford-Mahwah production that was shipped on 
EL was interchanged with D&H (enroute to CN or CP), N&W, CN, B&O, N&W 
(enroute to SR), L&N, MP, IHB (enroute to IC), ATSF and BN, so I would 
surmise that at least all these roads (except possibly D&H) were represented 
st Mahwah.

Paul B

> Like
> autoparts cars, autoracks were in assigned service, accounting for the 
> high
> empty miles. The tiedowns were specific to model groups. The racks were
> owned by all the RR's in the pool participating in a particular model's
> movement.

Really?  I never knew that.  It makes sense, though.  It must be that the 
pools were much bigger compared to some of the auto parts pools.  That would 
account for the wider variety of racks compared to Hi-Cubes, for example.

Then again, if you are talking about the freight traffic to and from an 
automobile distribution facility, like the Chrysler facility at Mt. Pocono, 
I suppose that sort of facility would receive racks loaded from many 
different Chrysler plants.  Is that correct?  That way, we would have seen 
auto racks from many different equipment pools all being gathered for 
delivery to Mt. Pocono.  That could also account for the variety.  That is 
opposed to something like Ford at Mahwah, which made just one type of 
vehicle so it would have involved fewer equipment pools and less variety?

- - -pat
 


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