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trying to gain some more knowledge on US freight trains....
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Another thing to mix up the paint schemes is that when a car (say from Maine) is unloaded (say in Florida) it wouldn't make sense to send it back empty. (With the exception of specialist cars and those dedictaed to specific traffic). So it will pick up a load for wherever (say Washington)... then it will go there the most effective way... which isn't necessarily the most direct/shortest. then it will head off someplace else...(Maybe California... Canada... Mexico). So long as it's in free interchange traffic it will go where it's paid for. <br />Persoanlly I love this because I can include pretty much any car within my time frame - or from earlier that wouldn't have been scrapped /worn out or regulated out of interchange use - <br />As far as I can tell the big restrictions on interchange use since 1945 have been on 40' cars (Excluding tank cars), the removal of running boards and the repositioning of brake wheels to the low level... although I keep finding pics of high brake wheels in recent shots on the net...???. <br />I expect that there have been threads on these changes or someone will be nice and provide dates. <br />Of course cattle cars and ice reefers faded out of use with traffic and technical changes. <br /> <br />have fun :-)
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