Here's another good one from Paul Bender
quote
Here are two things to consider
1) Containers are routed through the rail system in much the same way that rail
cars are. As a result, you can't assume that any container has been taken off a
ship and put directly onto the rail car you're looking at. The container may
have come from a port, but it also may have gone from a port to an inland
terminal, where it was removed from the original car and placed on another
car(or rubber tired to another terminal where it was placed on another car), or
the container may have made a delivery and has been reloaded with another
commodity.
2) If a car isn't fully loaded when it arrives at an inland terminal and then
are containers at that terminal going in the same direction, the railroad MAY
fill out tonnage on the train by adding containers to cars on the train.
Whether or not this is done depends on the timing and availability of equipment.
Paul
endquote
Tom Hawley
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