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Tim, <br /> At NS, these types of cars are called "no bills" The name is self-explanatory. Sometimes they are set out and sometimes they're not. If the car in question were in a unit train placed 35th of 90 with the same commodity, same type of car, etc. we would let it go to destination of the others and have the paperwork straightened out by the time it got there. <br />In cases where no one has any idea, the cars are set out pending resolution. No need to send one further out of route. <br />Right after the Conrail transaction, there were a lot of misrouted cars and no-bills. It's a pesky job to try to figure these out and can get tedious. Some customers didn't even know the cars were supposed to be coming. We also had the unhappy condition of what became known as ping pong cars. Through a computer glitch during the days just following the tranasaction, the car movement system would receive a car at its destination and instantly record it as an empty, whereupon it was returned to origin before it was delivered to the customer. When it was placed as an empty, the customer would see the original seal and would open it to discover it was still loaded. They notified us and the car was reshipped and it happened all over again...hence the name ping pong. That only served to create more congestion. It would drive you nuts trying to find the glitch that caused this. Turns out it was a human mistake in information technology. <br />gdc
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