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Yes, this was done with large quantities of lumber. As long as you didn't try to go backwards into a higher-rated territory, and the car moved forward or up and down, it could be diverted a dozen times -- or more. Want to speed it up? Take an interchange out. Want to slow it down? Put an interchange in. It kept a lot of granger roads and short lines like the QA&P in business. A lot of SP lumber, for example would move SP-Ogden-D&RGW, get diverted to RI at Colorado Springs, to UP somewhere in Kansas, back to RI, to CB&Q, through Peoria, and end up in Chicago a month after it left Oregon. <br /> <br />This was not done with perishables -- they'd perish. I'm not aware of another commodity that this was done to such a large scale. Lumber is an unusual commodity: it's not highly differentiated, it's demand fluctuates considerably, and in the past, it used to move to tens of thousands of consignees. <br /> <br />OS
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