Re: Hormel Meat Reefer traffic was Tri-Sorb snubbers on reefers
Yawn. It's a ridiculous argument. The PRR served the industrial heartland and it was an enormous and important corporation. It was also one of the many that suffered from the postwar migration to the west and south - you can almost watch the ton-miles going from the PRR to the SP for much of the postwar period. Weird routings existed because railroads were COMPETITIVE (thanks to the ICC and tariff rules) and those routings were not necessarily faster, shorter, or better. You never heard of the traffic manager being taken out to eat by the railroads' sales reps? Business ain't charity, but it also isn't entirely rational.
On 11/12/2019 4:54 PM, Donald B. Valentine via Groups.Io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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