Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Less Than Carload Shipments
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C J Wyatt
If something was completely hopeless, you could get a favorable ICC decision. With LCL, I think that happened long before the Staggers Act. I never came across any railroad operated LCL operations in the seventies during my railroad career. Jack Wyatt
On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 12:44:14 PM EDT, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Mike, I don't think Dennis meant it died instantly. It was a slow death. ;-) As Dennis noted, and I think he may be right, railroads could not opt out without cause until after the Staggers Act took effect. (It took years to be fully in effect.) Tim O' On 8/6/2019 1:28 PM, Schleigh Mike via Groups.Io wrote: Hello Dennis &
Group!
Down below, Dennis S
says the following--
"The traditional
operation, where the local freight had an LCL car that
delivered to each station as it worked down the line,
died with the end of WWII."
Respectfully,
I must submit, this is simply wrong.
-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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