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
Nobody bothered to check the dead line or the shop's paper work since the car was reported as "enroute".
Larry
Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!
Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!