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[quote user="gregc"]if there is demand for/ shortage of cars, is it in the interest of a small RR to build cars that may rarely travel within the owner's territory as a source of income?[/quote] It could be, but when there is a traffic decline, they could find themselves with a surplus of car and no place to put them. [quote user="gregc"]in the Monon case, it was a brand new car.   Is the same likely to occur for an older and dirty car?[/quote] Some of the loads placed into the new Monon car would likely not have been placed into an older car and/or dirty car (food items).   [quote user="gregc"]So the owner of the car gets a share of the freight fee and the originating road and each road the car travels on gets a share of the freight fee?    [/quote] Only if the car owning road actually handles the freight.  I think the owner only gets a per diem charge by the day or mileage (depends on car type).  The Code of Car Service Rules and Per Diem rules can be found at the back of the ORER.  In my ORER (JAN 1943) the code can be found on pp 1022-1039.
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