Interesting. Curious where they would be headed going in that direction. I'm assuming this isn't new (e.g. since mid-2017)?
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I was interested in CN9634's comment about "vented C plate cars" ... what are vented boxcars?Fritz, boxcars built or modified specifically for pulp service (given pulp can create a humid environment as it has a high moisture content and may be loaded warm) feature pretty obvious venting (roof vents or exterior wall vents ... perhaps that is what CN9634 is talking about? A Google of "pulp boxcars" will bring up a few examples. New boxcars are generally equipped with limited venting, with vent holes in the interior walls. You can't see them from the outside as they open into the backside of the exterior vertical supports.
gokeefe wrote:There are MEC boxcars moving west on SLR?Why would you think that? Pan Am has always used their own cars for interchange, along with various lease fleet cars.
That's quite surprising. I was under the impression that Pan Am kept their boxcar fleet in captive service on their system and used RBOX (or similar) for interchange service.
690 wrote:Why would you think that? Pan Am has always used their own cars for interchange, along with various lease fleet cars.I had seen discussion of such in the Pan Am.Clipper and heard an Executive speak about some aspects of this in person. It never made complete sense to me but that was the story. Transload at Ayer which as I understand it was just been expanded.
gokeefe wrote:There is a pool of cars in the 'paper shuttle' moves to Ayer, but its an allocation of the entire fleet, not the entire fleet itself. Pan Am's boxcar fleet from legacy companies is quite large, so no shortage of boxes to send all over the country (and they do).690 wrote:Why would you think that? Pan Am has always used their own cars for interchange, along with various lease fleet cars.I had seen discussion of such in the Pan Am.Clipper and heard an Executive speak about some aspects of this in person. It never made complete sense to me but that was the story. Transload at Ayer which as I understand it was just been expanded.
Are any of the hi-cubes vented? Or only the regular boxes?I've only seen 50' Plate C pulp boxcars... not sure about ownership or how many there are altogether.
NHV 669 wrote:Where do they store cars these days? I went up to Stratford last week, and it looked like even the northern section of NHCR is clear, even those boxes furthest north that had been sitting forever.Now that is an interesting report. Thank you for sharing.