11-07-2014, 10:03 AM
Ed,
I'm glad to hear from you. How about a furniture company.
Inbound loads would be box cars (hardware, lumber, stuffing, fabric, pipe), flat cars(lumber, pipe), steel coil loads (sheet steel for furniture framework), gondolas (wire cables), tank cars (glue, lacquer and paint).
Outbound loads would be box cars (furniture), gondolas (scrap), and covered hoppers (saw dust bound for meat packers).
If I were to make an ISL/short line with just 2 industries, I would pick a food processing plant and a furniture company. They both have just about every type of freight cars being used.
I'm glad to hear from you. How about a furniture company.
Inbound loads would be box cars (hardware, lumber, stuffing, fabric, pipe), flat cars(lumber, pipe), steel coil loads (sheet steel for furniture framework), gondolas (wire cables), tank cars (glue, lacquer and paint).
Outbound loads would be box cars (furniture), gondolas (scrap), and covered hoppers (saw dust bound for meat packers).
If I were to make an ISL/short line with just 2 industries, I would pick a food processing plant and a furniture company. They both have just about every type of freight cars being used.
Mike Kieran
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.