[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

Interesting.   What I was seeing on trains on CN, CP and UP was probably much closer to a 90-10 split with 90 percent being private owner cars.   If its 58-42, why are the railroads ignoring their own cars and using the private cars?   Because the private owners are loading their own cars?   

On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Dwight Long wrote:

> Fred
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> Pix again hijacked by Ecartis.  Not visible in your message.
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> Total USA railcar ownership as of 1 January 2008 was 1,385,709 (which excludes Canadian and Mexican reporting marks).  580,635, or 42%, were railway owned by reporting mark.  This is somewhat misleading, though, as non-rail ownership in these stats includes TTX and other railway-owned car companies. Probably closer to a 50-50 split in reality.
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> Dwight
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>  From: Fred Schneider 
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>  This was the other picture that disappeared in the ether with the demented system....
>  It shows the Pittsburgh and Ohio Central freight train with an covered hopper (empty or loaded with plastic pellets) passing the open car at PTM) on Friday.   The
>  internet discloses that AMCX are the reporting marks for BP Amoco Chemical Corp.   
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>  I was amazed on this recent trip cross country to discover that more than perhaps 90 percent of the railroad cars I saw were privately owned.   
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