Hi Jerry and List Members,

 

One might figure that, after burning, most of the steel parts would simply be sent to a scrap yard. In that case, it may make sense to burn the cars in a location at or near the scrap yard, or in a location where the steel parts are easily loaded into gons for shipment to a scrap yard.

 

Lastly, I believe in current times car are cut up for scrap on railroad property, but the work is done by an entity other than the railroad itself. Perhaps the burn operation was on railroad property, but the work to burn the cars and process the steel parts was done by some entity other than MP or ART

 

Claus Schlund