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Re: (erielack) EL empty car waybill
Oh, Yes! Many times, every day, in every place. And if we got a car at
Port Morris without record rights, it moved toward home under a default
rule of "to or in the direction of." From Westchester Ave, it went in a
Selkirk Empty block, and then they had to deal with it.
Also in that regard, and related slightly to the Erie, the New York
Central dumped most of its New Haven system empties, that is, cars that
were home on the NH, back to the New Haven at Campbell Hall (using
trackage rights on the Erie from Montgomery) regardless of record
rights. Most of the NYC system empties from the New Haven and
connections went to the NYC at Boston, Worcester or Springfield. Record
rights didn't govern empty car returns at direct connections.
Erie and NH would exchange system empties at Maybrook under the same
procedure. In those days, per diem was paid by the railroad that held
the car at midnight. There was usually an agreement governing
situations where one railroad delivered to another. I don't know for
sure, but it would be typical that the NH would be the handling line for
all cars in trains where the headlight of the lead Erie locomotive
passed onto the NH at Campbell Hall before midnight, and the Erie would
pay the per diem when all the cars in an Erie train at Maybrook were
declared by the New Haven as ready for movement (coupled up with power
and caboose, if available, and air test complete) before midnight.
There might have been even more detailed conditions that I'm not aware of.
Gordon Davids
Brian J Carlson wrote:
> And when a yardmaster needed an empty to say load a carload of widgets in
> Youngstown for Boston and all he had was that Westbound SP empty boxcar it
> was loaded and sent east, car service rules be damned.
>
> Brian J. Carlson, P.E.
> Cheektowaga NY
>
>
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