During world war 2 my grandfather Frank Tally was head of transportation at the old Norfolk Southern RR. He would get phone calls in the middle of the night where someone was wanting to know the current location of a high priority car. He soon leaned not to ship on the ACL if it was a high priority car as the ACL would did not be able to find the current location. Instead he would always ship by the SAL as they could always locate the car and know when it was going to reach its destination. The SAL during the war was still in receivership and was a single track railroad but was lean and hungry and once they installed CTC they could run almost as many trains as the double track ACL.
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