Charlie Tapper writes:

I sincerely doubt if much of the product from

these mills went far east, but I would venture that quite a bit of the
product from the much larger and more diversified mill complexes of the

east

headed west. Just a guess, mind you, but it seems logical.

While I have not yet compiled meaningful data from the Big Boy tape, various
books or the Fraley frt conductor book, I have noticed a "significant"
number of eastern gons on UP tracks in Wy.

Mike Brock