I am doing a few flat cars which brought ship building parts to the Bath Iron Works ship yard in Bath ME. For example-if I put some ship-deck 5"guns made at the Washington Navy Yard on a B&O ( which "serviced" that yard) flat car-would the normal process be that the car was brought ( via various railroads like the B&O to the PRR to the NH to the B&M and finally to the MEC)-or would the "load" be transferred from flat car to flat cars of the various railroads. I presume that it would make more sense to keep the load on one ( B&O) car all the way to Bath-but clearly I am not an expert. Could different railroads have different policies? Thanks in advance, P Hering Lombard, IL
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