another coal routing question

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Harry –

Seems that I remember that after getting a lot of coal empties back from the NYC at odd places (Detroit on the old Wabash if I remember correctly) the N&W got a decree from the ICC that a road could not deliver more empties back at a given point than they got loads from that point.  NYC (the old T&OC) got the coal (for Ford at Detroit, if I remember correctly) at Columbus (could have been Toledo, but it sure wasn’t Detroit), so it had to deliver the empties back there.

EdKing

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Subject: Re: another coal routing question

I consulted a friend (retired NS and from Indiana) and he provided this information: 

Columbus-Bradford-Ridgeville-Logansport-Hartsdale-EJ&E delivery.

Ed Painter Narrows,VA living in Dahlonega,GA


On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:45 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:




  Which route did US Steel coal go toward Gary after it was handed off to PRR in Columbus?
  Salt Water:
  There appears to have been a slight mileage advantage to route the coal
  via Logansport, but I suspect it went to Ridgeville, IN up to Ft. Wayne and
  moved to destination on the PRR's New York-Chicago main line.  That way
  it avoided all the congestion of the Chicago suburbs.

  Incidentally, some of the US Steel coal was billed from Gary, WV to Gary, IN.

  After the PRR/NYC merger, the route used by PC to return the mty hoppers
  proved to be costly to N&W . . . . .but legal.      Harry Bundy
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