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RE: (erielack) Interline Switching
This is starting to sound like the beginnings of a novel "The paper war"
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:28 -0400
> From: jananran_@_mymailstation.com
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re:(erielack) Interline Switching
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> Bill says:
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> . . .If your short line was predominantly inbound/prepaid (a situation probably typical of most EL short lines), you did the work first and waited to be paid by connecting railroads. Same for outbound/collect. Your money didn't depend on whether the customer paid promptly . . .
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> Randy goes on:
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> . . .Which they often didn't or, if they did to meet the statutory requirements for the payment of freight bills, they still audited and filed claims for perceived overcharges. The payor of the freight charges audited each freight bill against his own knowledge of his commodity, origins, destinations, and the tariff rates attaching thereto, which he (or his clerks) knew as well as or better than the railroad clerks.
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> Whole careers and lifetimes of armies of workers stood on these endeavors. And the question of rates appearing on the bill of lading is a whole 'nother story . . .
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> Randy Brown
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