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There are two answers to your question. <br /> <br />1. If the car has no particular assignment the receiving road is supposed to give it a load that heads generally in the direction of the owning road. If no load can be found quickly it is to be returned empty. <br /> <br />2. Some cars are assigned to a customer. In that case the car will be stencilled with "When Empty return to ......." and the car must be returned empty to the agent listed. This is usually, but not always, on the home road. If two or more roads share in some captive traffic, such as auto parts going from the manufacturer to the assembly plant, then they all might assign cars to the pool with the return point being the manufacturing plant.
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