Re: (erielack) EL empty car waybill

[Smtimko_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/2009 11:14:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
pat.moore_@_att.net writes:

So, does  anyone know if every freight car travelling on an EL train had to 
have an  EL-issued waybill?  For example, if a load of produce from 
California was  routed off the ATSF through Chicago and consigned to someone in NJ, 
would it  have an ATSF-issued waybill or an EL waybill?


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Every car traveling on EL had to have a waybill or empty car waybill.   The 
waybills were issued by the road that billed the shipment, thus the term  
"interline waybill".  When train PN-98 arrived Meadville to change crews  and 
make a pick up the inbound conductor would take the bills to the Eastbound  
Yard Office where the clerk would check them off with a consist, stamp them 
on  the back with a hand rubber time/date stamp (the front was only for 
interchange  stamps) and then add any waybills for cars added and remove any 
waybills for  cars taken off of the train.  The stack of waybills would be 
from any  railroad west of Meadville where the car originated.  They could be 
from  the CGW, MKT, B&O, CB&Q, WP, ATSF, etc.  They were all the same  size 
and varied only by railroad name and number on the top line except that  
PREPAID shipments used a pink colored waybill.  All of the others were  white.
 
Company use waybills were for non-revenue cars traveling only on that home  
road.  A car of sand from Phalanx to Croxton would use a Company Use  
waybill and would not show any charges and usually did not have a waybill  
number, it simply said "Co Use".  It looked the same as a revenue waybill  as far 
as I can recall.  
 
Cars moving with lost waybills............"it flew out the caboose window"  
traveled on a "Memo Bill" which is a waybill issued en route, such as 
Meadville  for a car of grapes from California to Dover, NJ.  If there was no 
waybill  to be found, the clerk would issue (type) a bill, showing whatever 
information  he/she could pull from the consist or the limited computer system 
at the time  and prepare the paperwork to get the car to the destination.  
It would  carry the notation  "MEMO WAYBILL"  "Revenue Waybill to Follow" and 
 the Freight Traffic Dept would figure it out and the billing would catch 
up to  the destination or a new revenue waybill would be created or Freight 
Claims  would arrange for payment.
 
Empty card waybills were pretty much standard as far as size, shape, info,  
also.
 
SMT


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