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For example, CSX has yards in Saginaw, Grand rapids, Flint, Lansing, Plymouth, Mi and so on. If freight out of one or any combination of yards went to a central yard say like in the Cincinatti area or some other location 8-10 hrs from the furthest city. If say a load had to go from Saginaw, Mi to Rochester, NY instead of moving the car via the most direct route via any number of trains, the load went direct to say Cincinatti, was humped into a train going to Rochester, NY directly or as part of a group yards. Air freight for example, is picked up at various airports, flowm to one central airport, off loaded, sorted, reloaded onto planes and flown to airports near where the package has to go. Now, I realize trains are somewhat slower than planes, but, the same concept can be applied to railroading as well. The boxcar is simply a larger "package". All railcars have tags on them that can be used to track them and speed up sorting. The problem with the current system, is that a load going from one city to another depending on where they are can move on any number of routes on its way to its final destination. Using the Saginaw to Rochester example, the car may travel south from Saginaw to Toledo, Oh, then be in a train from Toledo to Cleveland, then another from Cleveland to Buffalo, then from Buffalo to Rochester before being put into a local for delivery. Each time the car switches trains, it probably sits for a day or two in each yard it is resorted to another train. My example would put the car in one train from Saginaw to some "hub" yard, be sorted for the train going directly to Rochester, then put in a local for delivery.
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