[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

Remember that the old UP and today's UP are not the same.   I am including the SP in it.   I saw a lot of UP trains on the mainline between North Platte and Grand Island and also in the San Joaquin Valley and up around Dunsmuir on the former SP.   The ratio seemed about the same.



On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> Pix again hijacked by Ecartis.  Not visible in your message.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Dwight
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Fred Schneider 
>> To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org 
>> Cc: Ken Josephson 
>> Sent: Sunday, 27 June, 2010 16:42
>> Subject: [PRCo]
>> 
>> 
>> 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.   
>> 
>> 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.   
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
>> -- Type: image/jpeg
>> -- Size: 341k (350076 bytes)
>> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/IMG_0617.JPG
>> 
>> 
>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
>> -- Type: text/plain
>> -- Size: 24 bytes
>> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/ecartKpvu7I
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>