--- In STMFC@..., "Malcolm Laughlin" <mlaughlinnyc@...> wrote: CN did a systemwide 8 AM check in the era of STMFC.
Steve Lucas.
--- In STMFC@..., Larry Jackman <Ljack70117@> wrote:
At 6 AM each morning the entire yard was check and recorded on a
special form. Two copies were sent to the accounting department
and
two copies to the car department and one filed in the files where they were recorded.
This was done on the whole RR and was done on The Un Pac and John Santa Fe.
It is of my opinion that this was done on every RR in the good old US of A, So at 6 AM every freight car in the good old US of A was on record.
I know for certain that it was not done on the NYC, MILW, NS or
B&M.
The UP and ATSF were rather wealthy railroads, from long haul revenue, and in the 60's were not known for keeping a sharp eye on costs.
So they not only needed to be known, they were known.
That it was done does not tell us that it was needed. It sounds
like
a want on the part of some official to give the car accounting department a means for cross checking the data received from interchange reports and wheel reports. Whether the costs saved by having that cross reference exceeded the cost of all those yard
