01-17-2011, 09:52 PM
Gary, regarding your loads that are unloaded at an industry. If the cars are not in captive service (it looks like the SLC reefers might be in captive service) then empties might well just go back to the yard to wait for another industry to need that type of car to load. this would be especially true if the car was owned by SF or SP (I think you were modeling SF, but don't remember for sure). A class one railroad would not ship their own cars all over the country empty unless they had a shortage of cars and a lot of loads to go out in another part of the country. If they could hold a car in the yard for a few days and then get a paying load locally to go some place else, they would do it to make the money on the car.