Re: (erielack) O&W revenue equipment

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

Lack of cars could be a serious problem for a road.  There was a little
Lehigh Valley Per Diem booklet on eBay and the seller quoted from it that in
1963 it cost them something like 3 million dollars more than they took in on
per diem payments.

Anyone have a '50's equipment register handy? I would think that would tell
what cars the O&W had in revenue service.  I know they had only a handful of
steel passenger cars, in fact the In Color book shows one wood car from
about 1890 that was still around OOS in 1957.  But the hopper car fleet was
steel, if small cars -


Bill K.

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From: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: (erielack) O&W revenue equipment


>
> Gary and list -- O&W paid "per diem" for every car not theirs that they
moved.  The shipper or consignee would pay "demurrage" only on cars they
delayed.  Demurrage to the carrier was intended to defray the additional per
diem from the placing carrier to the owning carrier.
>
> Randy Brown ELHS#16
>

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