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Posted by twcenterprises on Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:35 PM
Interchange list for 12-12-2005

nharrison21

1 load Asbestos

Yoshi

1 load foam insulation

Can you use lumber, Kubota tractors, or antique autos? I can provide 3 loads/week of lumber, 2 per month on the antique cars, and 5 per day for the Kubotas.

Ken

2 loads copper ore

Please forward bare wire back to Atlanta, the copper tubes, sheets, and plumbing to CW.

Noah

3 cars of pulpwood

Can you use coal, Kubota tractors, or antique autos? Can provide up to 6 loads daily on the coal, 5 per day on the Kubotas, and 1 per week on the cars.

Inch53

1 load foam insulation

Awaiting soybeans for processing into bean meal.

luct

1 load antique autos

CW

4 loads of Coal
2 Gold ore
2 Cotton (baled)
1 Expanded foam insulation
1 Asbestos
1 Mixed load of Wine and Beer
3 Wood Chips
2 Flour
2 Textiles
6 loads Kubota tractors

1 armored Pullman on captive service lease

Recap

33 loads plus 1 armored Pullman interchanged.

Awaiting inbound traffic. This list will be considered as standing orders unless otherwise specified.

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Posted by inch53 on Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:31 PM

CW ; i'll get the following rolling out for you in the morning
3 cv hoppers ag lime
3 box cars bag cattle feed
1 box car bar sheep feed
1 box car bag horse feed
1 box car bag chicken feed
2 box cars each cat and dog food

YOSHI ; got ya covered on the feed. Will get it out tomorrow for you.

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Posted by railroadyoshi on Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:44 PM
inch53, i'm going to need 2 cars worth of all different types of your animal food!

Counterweight, i'd be happy to take those team track loads off of you.

Quite a bit of textiles sitting around in Maynard, waiting for a customer
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:16 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Counter Weight

QUOTE: Originally posted by Counter Weight

Here is my summary of Falls Valley Business closing this week of December 11 2005 (Includes all pages of this thread until this post)

I see a need for other railroads to join this thread to bridge my traffic around the nation to those who are not located near my area.

My interchanges are:

All traffic to and from the west coast via Wheeling Wva
All traffic to and from Great Lakes via Harrisburg PA (This includes all Canada Traffic by way of either Detroit MI or Buffalo NY
All traffic to and from the south (Fla to Tx) via Manassas VA

East coast ports and NE to Maine is via Frederick Md Sub that connects with the B&O

There are some offers to each railroad involved in interchange with me.
There are some offers being made to each railroad in interchange with me.
I tried best to determine geographical location to enable interchange but need better information.
I will consider new railroads and thier business as they come on line in this topic.

If there is some way of keeping everyone straight, I have each account on a notepad file on my computer and so far I think I have everyone, if I forgot someone, let me know and we will get the business correct.

Ok, My outbound means going TO YOUR railroad, my inbound means COMING FROM your railroad.

Ok First off:

GDRMCo

Inbound

4 Loads of antique autos in double door box.

Outbound

4 Boxcar loads finished products

No additional changes to week two ending 12-11
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Fergie

-Inbound
3 Carloads foundry sand
LCL Maple syrup

-Outbound
6 Boxcars of Maritime Support (One each of: Rope, Twine, Foul Weather Gear, Chain, Cabling and Fittings)
4 Loads of Scrap
2 Bridged loads of Scrap in gons

No additional changes to traffic week ending 12-11

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sierrarr
(Interchanges with me at Wheeling Wva)

Inbound

8 loads produce
One load Paint
One load Clothing
5 Tank cars of Petrochemicals return loads

Outbound?

5 8,000 gallon tank cars for loading

No change noted in week Two ending 12-11

*****
Ken (Interchanges with me on Frederick Md Sub)



Outbound
2 Loads of Firebrick
6 Gondolas of Scrap
40 cars of Coal


Inbound

4 Steel Coil
2 Slag
1 Tar
1 Benzoil
6 Return gondolas of Ingots??
15 empty coal hoppers for reload

Tentatively closed for week of 12-11, there is some traffic involved related to copper wire.


*****

Noah Hofrichter (Interchanges with me at Harrisburg PA for great lakes)

Inbound

2 Carloads week Gravel on gondolas

Outbound

3 Carloads of Coal
2 Boxcars of paper (News print)

No change noted in week two ending 12-11

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rttraincollector (Virginia? Interchanges with me at Manssas)

Outbound

1 Car load each of Vodka and Gin
1 Carload each of Flour
I can offer 2 Boxcars of Boxes to your specs.
2 carloads of Wax covered milk cartons

Inbound

No change to week two traffic ending 12-11

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Bukwrm (Cinicinatti Interchanges with me at Wheeling)

Outbound

One Express
Two LCL
One load Seafood
4 Produce a week
2 Coal
2 chemical
2 steel coil
2 shipping consumeables to tug works in Boxcars

Inbound

I would like:

2 Shoes
2 pallets
2 can
2 biscuts

Accepted 2 Pork Loads and 4 Beef Loads
Accepted 4 Production machinery in flats or boxcars

No change noted in traffic for week two ending 12-11. request for Shoes, Pallets, cans and Biscuts still stand

*****

Twcenterprises Georgia (Interchanges with me at Manassas Va)


Outbound

Two loads of empty glass bottles
Two loads of Steel cans
6 Coal Loads daily
Spools in boxcar
Spools in Gondola
Boxcar telephone pole fittings
One return load of telephone poles in gon.

Inbound

2 cotton loads
4 coal loads
Copper Plumbing grade one boxcar
One gon for wire
One flat for sheet
One flat tubes
One fittings for plumbing grade pipe boxcar
Six loads of tractors... will reload with crates, fittings, factory inventory
3 Loads of wood chips
2 Loads Flour (Covered Hoppers)
2 Loads Texiles
One load wine
One load abestoes (Steam loco shop)
One load insulation


Captive Service -One leased armored Pullman for Gold Bullion

Traffic updated and set until 12-11. Changes are pending as errors are discovered and worked out.

*****

Luct Canada (Interchanges with me at Harrisburg PA)

Outbound

2 Carloads of Lumber
4 Carloads of Coal

-Inbound
2 Furnature loads
10 return loads with white rock
2 Gons of scrap to bridge via Ken to Fergie

-Outbound
10 cars of coal
One foundry load of parts for cars

No other changes noted in week two ending 12-11

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Inch 53 (Interchanges with me at Wheeling WVa)

-Wanderers
2 Boxcars to YOSHI for reload home

Inbound:

2 Carloads of Scrap
2 Carloads of Marine chargers in boxcars
2 Carloads of Lumber
Two carloads of white rock
Marine Chargers
Car Battery chargers
3 cv hoppers ag lime
3 box cars bag cattle feed
1 box car bar sheep feed
1 box car bag horse feed
1 box car bag chicken feed
2 box cars each cat and dog food



Outbound:

2 carloads of electronics parts
2 Carloads of Pallets
2 Carloads of Bottled Rum
2 carloads of Coal
1 Hopper Milled corn
1 Mixed Load Liquor
1 Load brickTwo flats of poles (Will return with pallets)
10 loads of coal
One car electronics parts
One car mixed booze
15 coal cars in exchange for white rock


No other traffic changes noted for week two ending 12-11

*****

Masonjar (Interchanges with me at Harrisburg PA)

Southern Ontario "Marlpost Sub"

Outbound:

Coal 2 carloads Week
Ice One Carload Week

Inbound:

4 Grain Loads Week

No changes to traffic week two ending 12-4

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nharrision21

-Outbound
1 Foundry load of parts

-Inbound

12 Flatcars - 3 Tanks Each
20 Flatcars - 4 Humvees Each
05 Flatcars - 1 Tractor Trailer Each
10 Flatcars - 3 Bradley Tanks Each
07 Passanger Cars - 100 Troops Each
03 Boxcars - Troop Supplies & Extras

Outbound

Military empties

No other additions to traffic week ending 12-11

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This closes Falls Valley Railroad's work up to 21-11-2005 of this thread. Any additional resulting business contracts will be processed this week for next week's traffic.

Also:

Interchange traffic is handled on a specific day of week.. example:

Wheeling WVa is set out and ready by Midnight of Sunday of every week, expects to have inbounds by Noon Monday

Harrisburg PA is set out and ready by Midnight Monday of every week, expects to have inbounds by Noon Tuesday

Manassas Va is set out and ready by Midnight Tuesday of every week, Expects to have inbounds by Noon Wedensday

Frederick Md Sub is serviced every day with set outs by Midnight and expects inbounds by Noon following day.

Confused yet???

Once I get skill in managing virtual trains I will be staggering interchanges with own trains daily.. but first things first....


Please post any corrections this upcoming week in following pages so I may address them on a case by case basis.

I think and HOPE my format is acceptable to all... it is very difficult to produce a traffic report in this particular situation but can learn if others have a better method.


Week three Offerings:

Now offering for Outbound traffic this week:

10 Loads Coal
8 Express LCL Reefers
8 LCL Boxcars
6 Glass Bottles
6 Glass containers
6 Flat loads of granite (Ready for further cutting)
6 Flat loads of Marble (Ready for further cutting)
18 Hoppers of Quarry tailings (Waste dirt and stone etc)
20 Loads of seafood (All kinds)
12 Loads of Tobacco
10 Loads each Cider, Apples, Pears, wool, Mulch and hay.
10 Loads aluminum coil.. suitable for brewery cans etc...
10 Loads of finished steel coil ready to be made into something.
12 Gondola loads of Aluminum Ingots that are really big
16 Foundry items ranging from engine blocks for autos to steel structural parts.
8 Loads of Charcoal in bags by boxcar
20 Loads of regular brick
10 Loadas firebrick
10 Loads of Processed milk for further packing into boxes, bottle etc
4 Team track loads per week are availible

TOFC Facility now open. Accepting 10 loads per week on a first come first served basis.

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Looking for:

Canned Grease, Motor Oil etc.. supports general factory work
Av gas and Gasoline for Military
Grocery, meats and Produce
Building materials other than brick
Merchandise.. the shoppers emptied the stores over the weekend
Furnature for homes and business
Cans, Boxes, Pallets, cases etc...
Agricultural products including feed and chemicals
Chemicals for Distillery
Glass plant sand
News print Ink
News print
Paper all kinds
Salt
Hops and Grain for distillery
Molasses for animal use
Staves, Hoops and Barrels
Explosives
Tires
Coffee
Export and Inport goods (Opening a new Customs yard near Frederick Sub soon due to dramatic increase in traffic to and from the port of Baltimore.

NEW Item: Spices, Cresote and Fertilizer


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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:03 PM
Sunday Falls valley traffic report pending Sunday December 11, 2005

There will be many additions to current traffic.

I find myself saturated with products that need customers, hoping anyone who has not joined our Interchange thread to contact me here and ask for them and let us know what your railroad can offer us.

There will be a few cars gone missing, mistakes here and there as the traffic density is beginning to require a entire department of office drone bees working 24/7 to keep up. LOL.

Right.. without further ado...

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:28 AM
inch53,

I'll take

3 cv hoppers ag lime
3 box cars bag cattle feed
1 box car bar sheep feed
1 box car bag horse feed
1 box car bag chicken feed
2 box cars each cat and dog food

Dont know about the crude oil.. I have 5 tank cars going west empty weekly for petrochemicals. I'll have to find that provider and see if you are able to ship them to him.

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Posted by inch53 on Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:20 AM

AVAILABLE for shipment this week so far is

50 tank cars crude oil, hope some one takes this, sideings getting full
3 cv hoppers ag lime
3 bulk cv hoppers cattle feed
3 box cars bag cattle feed
2 cv hoppers hog feed
2 box cars bag hog feed
1 box car bar sheep feed
1 box car bag horse feed
1 box car bag chicken feed
2 box cars each cat and dog food

Also have 1 box car of rough cut mixed white and red oak lumber for furniture or cabinet making from the water powered saw mill

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:48 PM
twcenterprises

Set me up with 6 loads of tractors a week, I can refill those boxcars with crates, fittings and factory inventory needed to sustain your tractor assembly.

How is that?

Refer to my own list of availible items waiting for customers a few pages back (I think page 7 but not sure) and see what else your region can use.
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Posted by twcenterprises on Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:44 PM
Good deal, now the copper ore has a place to go. The miners will be pleased.

Let's see...

Copper has a route
Gold has a buyer
Coal has a customer
Asbestos has 2 takers
Foam has 2 takers
Wine and Beer have steady buyers
Lumber, logs and wood chips have buyers
Cotton has a place to go
Used cars are sold
The grist mill has traffic.

Ok what's missing?

Oh... the Kubota tractors need a buyer. I have 30+ loads and more piling up. HELP!!!

44 Tonner is in the shop
Armored Pullman is out on lease (captive service)

Did I miss anything?

Brad

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Posted by inch53 on Saturday, December 10, 2005 9:58 PM

KEN L ; sounds good. May have 4 extra loads of scrap cars next week if you want them. Have to check on the return

CW ; good deal, I'll ship the rock, pallets, marnine chargers out Sun. morning. I also have a box car load of Car battery chargers available if you want them.

I'll post a list of whats else is available for next week tomorrow
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:12 PM
Inch53

Agreed on your request regarding the two loads of poles and other related items.

If you have any additional changes to our traffic, let me know and I will update sunday's report to reflect our current traffic.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:56 PM
twcenterprises

The 44 tonner will take 3 weeks to repair will have it back to u in no time
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:28 AM
Ken, twcenterprises

Done. I will consider this pernament traffic after sunday night.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:06 AM
Inch - about those steel plates: you should have them by middle of next week, along with the customary 2 loads of wire.

CW - can do, I'll send the finished wire down to Brad's Southwire plant.

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Posted by inch53 on Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:31 AM
CW ; could use 2 flats of poles, i can load them with pallets for you.
could use 10 loads of coal, can ship you some more white rock if you want it
1 car eletronic parts, have 1 car of marine chargers
1 car of mixed boozes

RT ; can you ship 1 car of swiss cheese an eggs.. i can load chicken feed back

FERGIE ; 2 cars scrap on their way to JP , can you load back 1", 2", and 3" x3/16x10' steel strap.

KEN L ; 3 loads scap left last night, can you load 1 with 4'x8'x1/8th steel plate

BUKWRM ; 3 loads of hogs , 1 car of feed - 1 meat scrap back, left out to you last night could you also check with the procceser's on bone meal

all for now
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 7:40 PM
twcenterprises

Done!

Ken

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Posted by twcenterprises on Friday, December 9, 2005 6:59 PM
Ken

OK 100 tons of copper ore headed to you, loaded in 2 34' open hoppers. Will send 2 more loads about middle of next week. Please refine this into copper wire and forward to Southwire (near Atlanta). They will put insulation on it & will forward to CW when done.

CW

OK send the spools ready to use to Southwire (near Atlanta). That will be a good return load for a boxcar. They are going to receive the bare wire from Ken and ship the finished wire to you. I'll have them load it in gons, I'll take a return load of poles.

nharrison21

Got the glass. My crews have all this weekend to install it. Thanks.

Any word on the 44 tonner?

Fergie

I forget how many hundred 34' hoppers we have (own), but they're all in the 12,000 number series. I remember seeing #12,834 the other day.

How many do you need?

Inch

2 cars bean meal and 1 car foam enroute to you. I expect I'll see your loads get to me over the weekend.

recap

2 loads of copper ore set out
1 car foam insulation
2 covered hoppers soybean meal

5 cars total on interchange track.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 5:49 PM
That could have been a LCL shipment in a Boxcar... Nharrison21 LOL

Your traffic will be reflected in my sunday evening report weekly until you either make changes to it or cease.


twcenterprises

I did some thinking regarding the copper. I propose we split the business down the rails both ways..

1- I supply the spools that are made near the sawmill.
2- I will also supply the fittings (Small fasteners etc)

3- I propose you find a way to insulate the wire
4- I propose you place the insulated wire onto the spools and ship back.

I dont have a problem regarding the gondola situation as long as the wire is in it's finished form. No use covering those up if they are going to be strung for the next 10 years off telephone poles.

To all others,

I recently started to produce telephone poles. They are 40 feet in length and have 4 loads ready by sunday night. Please let me know if you would like to have some.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 8:48 AM
Ok well due to the ICE storm last night my shipment was put in to a 2 hour delay due to not being able to get into the locos (doors frozen shut), but now that problems taken care of, the following shipment(s) were sent out this morn at 0948 EST. Enjoy.


Weekly Friday Shiment

Counter Weight
12 Flatcars - 3 Tanks Each
20 Flatcars - 4 Humvees Each
05 Flatcars - 1 Tractor Trailer Each
10 Flatcars - 3 Bradley Tanks Each
07 Passanger Cars - 100 Troops Each
03 Boxcars - Troop Supplies & Extras

twcenterprises
1 Box assorted Pieces of Bullet Proof Glass For Caboose (box of glass is located in second locomotive just ask the engineer for it, no need for a whole box car for one shipment of glass hahaha, need two guys to lift)

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Posted by Fergmiester on Friday, December 9, 2005 8:28 AM
Re: 34's. How many and what kind of lease arrangement are we looking at? Is there anything you need when we ship the hoppers to you? coal, gravel, gypsom, dolomite, salt, wood chips, etc.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 8:09 AM
Inch - 2 more gons of wire headed back to ya!

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises
KenCopper ore is loaded on our 34' hoppers, just need the go ahead to send it your way.Fergie
You got it Brad - send them on up and I'll route 'em thru to CW.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 7:29 AM
Will do.

I need to see if I can find a supplier or establish a industry to create spools, wire insulation and or asociated hardware.

If anyone has this capability of any or all of the above, I would like to make a connection (Pun not intended) as I do have the wood and small fittings (Nuts and bolts) that can supply such a operation.
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Posted by twcenterprises on Thursday, December 8, 2005 10:10 PM
nharrison21

Copy that on the armor. Will check with engineering dept. on that.

How about fitting a caboose with bulletproof glass? No need to send the caboose up there, just send us the glass and our crews should be able to install it. Between that and the 1/4" steel siding, that should provide enough protection for our needs.

CW

Can do on the copper. The plumbing grade stuff will be all loaded on one boxcar if that's OK. The wire and cable will be naked wire, no insulation. If electrical wire is needed, I'll need to send the wire and cable to another customer to have the insulation put on and packaged or spooled as appropriate. We can then send these packages and smaller spools with the plumbing items, or the larger spools shipped in a gon. Since we don't have any covered gons (and no way of lifting the cover off of one anyway), we'll ship the sheets and tubes on a flatcar and tarp it.

Ken

Copper ore is loaded on our 34' hoppers, just need the go ahead to send it your way.

Fergie

Appreciate the offer on the Jennies, but our engineering dept. says we'd only be able to load about 30 tons in each unless we handle them singly or with idler cars over our old bridge. We can use 34' hoppers with 50 tons each because they help spread out the weight. Our bridge can only handle maybe a 75 ton car by itself with an idler car and a light locomotive (44 tonner) moving it. Ah, such it is with older branchlines...

Inch

Will send out the car of foam and 2 cars of bean meal when they are ready sometime tomorrow.

Recap

No loads interchanged today.

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Posted by inch53 on Thursday, December 8, 2005 9:40 PM

BRAD ; go ahead n send anothe load of foam out to me.
I gong to send out 3 more hoppers of beans to on the 6 am morning run , for bean meal back

KEN L ; 2 loads of scrap headed for you

RT ; Could use another tanker of eegnog, and a car load of your booze mixed

CW ; I've lost your order right now have to post it in the morning.
I do know , i need a car load of eletrical parts and will have a car load of marine chargers tomorrow night

all for now
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:01 PM
Fergiemeister,

I was able to acquire additional hoppers to meet demand. I am freeing your "On loan" cars up for other service. "Thanks!"

Let me know how things go in future.
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Posted by Fergmiester on Thursday, December 8, 2005 1:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen

Inch - There should be 2 gon loads of wire reaching you sometime soon. There'll be 2 more as soon as unload those 2 carloads of scrap your sending.

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises
Ken
Do you handle copper ore?
Brad - I'll need to lease some of Fergie's ore jennies to do that, since all my regular opentop hoppers are being used on unit coal trains or on loan to CW

Fergie - I've got 3 tanks of locomotive paint headed your direction, they originated from somewhere in central Alabama, could'nt read the handwriting...



I have about 40 "jennies" kicking around so give me directions and they'll be on their way.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 8, 2005 1:07 PM
twcenterprises

Whups made a boo boo on the bauxite. However, I can use wire, sheets, tubes, pipe copper. Also in cabling as well.

Im thinking one load each per week for now looks like One gon for wire, covered gon for the sheet and tubes each and pipe small enough for household use on boxcars as well as joint fittings.

Let me know if you were able to cover this order.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 8, 2005 7:12 AM
twcenterprises

No problem on the Pullman, Just need to know how thick u want the armor, will depend on how long it takes to get done.
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Posted by twcenterprises on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 10:40 PM
Ken

I have plenty of 34' open top hoppers, not a problem. Gotta load 'em short, though, the bridge on that line is only good for 50 ton loads. I gotta check with the engineering department, but the Jennies may not work on that line, I think we need to use longer cars to spread out the weight on that old bridge. Besides, I save money on per diem charges by using our own cars. You got anything to load in the 34 footers? We can use either Bauxite (aluminum ore) or silver ore.

Should I go ahead and send copper ore in your direction? If so, check with CW to see what to do with finished product.

nharrison21

Copy that on the 44 tonner. Have a bunch of 34' hoppers available for lease, also have some on captive service to CW.

BTW, I may need to have another Pullman or coach fitted with armor for security service, can your shop handle that?

CW

I think you misunderstood me on the Bauxite, I was looking for it to come my way. We can probably load out maybe 100 tons per day on the copper ore. That'll probably refine down to 50-75 tons depending on the purity of the ore. Let me know what form (wire, sheets, tubes, pipe, etc.) to ship it.

Inch53

Soybeans are unloaded and being processed. Should have a reload on Friday. Should I send another load of foam on Friday along with them?

Recap

2 inbound loads received and delivered. No other loads interchanged today.

Brad

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 9:44 AM
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roger that will have them forwarded to u as soon as they come on friday

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