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RE: (erielack) Auto Racks
Paul...
Interesting. The interchange partners would certainly give a good indication of what roadnames one would expect to see on the auto racks. Except for the D&H, anyway. The D&H was one of the few class 1s that didn't have auto racks. I find it interesting that none of the outbound Ford traffic was interchanged with the PC. Yes, the N&W had several hundred 89' flat cars, by 1980 at least. Evidently, some of them were obtained in the early- to mid-70s.
As for Chrysler assembly plants back in the mid-70s, they had three in Michigan and the one in Windsor, Ontario, as well as plants in Newark DE, Fenton (St. Louis) MO, and Belvidere IL. Not sure about the others, but Belvidere was on the C&NW.
- -pat
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From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
>
> 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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