01-30-2013, 05:40 PM
Is that what we call a train geeks battle? 
Quite interesting though. Anyway, it's fun to learn from people having memories from back then, much more lively.
Just to make sure I'm not wrong, REA parcel would have been handled/stored at the passenger station depot room? LCL to the freightshed, maybe express shipment via the railroad itself too?
About LCL unloaded at the freight station, am I wrong if I say it was a freight or mixed train that pulled that car there?
BTW, REA didn't exist in Canada. However, we often since those nicely painted express boxcar in CNR and CPR steam era picture. Was it a kind of equivalent to REA, but entirely own by its own railroad (that would have been quite possible since both were transcontinental and able to handle such traffic by themselves back then)?
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
Quite interesting though. Anyway, it's fun to learn from people having memories from back then, much more lively.Just to make sure I'm not wrong, REA parcel would have been handled/stored at the passenger station depot room? LCL to the freightshed, maybe express shipment via the railroad itself too?
About LCL unloaded at the freight station, am I wrong if I say it was a freight or mixed train that pulled that car there?
BTW, REA didn't exist in Canada. However, we often since those nicely painted express boxcar in CNR and CPR steam era picture. Was it a kind of equivalent to REA, but entirely own by its own railroad (that would have been quite possible since both were transcontinental and able to handle such traffic by themselves back then)?
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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