01-31-2013, 05:46 PM
All that talk remembers me that parcel I once tracked. It went from New York to Texas then back to Montreal and Quebec City... Freight air cargo is sometimes puzzling but I guess it works. Did this kind of seemingly irrational travel pattern happened when parcels were handled by trains?
Matt
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Yes..Not only parcells but,loaded cars as well and sadly it still happens with computer routing.
PRR lost a 40' boxcar loaded with beer in '62..It showed up in '74 at a scrap yard..The car was bad ordered and spotted on the shops storage track as a empty and was never repaired thanks to a written order..Store unservicable-pending scrap. :o
Nobody bothered to check the dead line or the shop's paper work since the car was reported as "enroute".
Matt
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Yes..Not only parcells but,loaded cars as well and sadly it still happens with computer routing.
PRR lost a 40' boxcar loaded with beer in '62..It showed up in '74 at a scrap yard..The car was bad ordered and spotted on the shops storage track as a empty and was never repaired thanks to a written order..Store unservicable-pending scrap. :o
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Engineman
Summerset Ry
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Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!