[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

Dwight Long dwightlong at verizon.net
Mon Jun 28 11:25:44 EDT 2010


Fred

Adverse selection, I suppose.

By contrast, the last time I traveled extensively on CN and CP, the largest proportion of the cars were railway owned.  Can't speak for UP, but would of course note that there is a lot of private owner coal car traffic and trona ash traffic on that road.

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 28 June, 2010 11:00
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]


  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 
  >  To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org 
  >  Cc: Ken Josephson 
  >  Sent: Sunday, 27 June, 2010 16:42
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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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