geysergazer posted:Ya, Railbox was a way to get around old ICC regulations that said once empty a car had to be returned [empty] to it's ownership railroad. By pooling ownership each car when empty was simply sent on to the nearest customer with a load, a lot more efficient with a lot less empty car-miles.
Lew
Lew
I remember when I was a kid seeing those new rail box box cars these days they’re doing that with Container chassis like Happag Lloyd and so on. used to we had to return the chassis back to the Depo or get a chassis from the Depo for an evergreen box or a Happag box or OCL box now they have a pool we’re all them no matter what the steamship line it is they’re all in one pool called the Midwest chassis pool so you can put an Happag box on hangin chassis and so on it is so much easier and time saving now in the old days it was a pain to drive all way across town to get a certain chassis for a certain box you would spend up to three or four hours just get your load or empty ready and then drive three hours to your customer
