Evidently, stopoff cars were commonly used for a variety of commodities. John Kneiling analyzed a 1971 train consist to determine the feasibility of containerizing all the loads. (Presumably honoring a request by the source, RR and train were not specified, but it was evident from the description it was Southern's Washington-New Orleans hotshot #153.) Almost all the 121 loads were boxcars and TOFC carrying general merchandise (furniture, paper etc), and 23 (ie nearly 20%) were stopoff cars. This included some of the TOFC, illustrating the marginal profitability of single-trailer moves reflected in lower two-trailer rates. Bob, I'm interested in hearing why dereg effectively abolished stopoff moves. Was it because RR's could use their ratemaking freedom to incentivize full carload lots? Paul B After the staggers act the stop off cars became a thing of the past. These stop off cars where very common for shipments of animinal and poltury feed. Bob Stafford The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2642 ***********************************
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