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To add to the Pennsy inter change. Shipping steel out of Pittsburgh in the '60s & '70s bothe the NYC and and the Pennsy would long haul to Chicago and then back haul to Detroit to keep the shipments on home rails for maximum revenue. The shipments could have been routed out at Toledo north to Detroit to cut down the miles the cars travelled. Probably the time in route was shorter even with the switching in Chicago than it would have been with the hand off in Ohio. <br />Also with regard to refrigerators, remember the vast amount of traffic coming from the slaughter houses in Kanas City, Chicago, etc that would have been heading East to market. <br />Will
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