Less than Carload Lot Shipping

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Less than Carload Lot Shipping

• Prepared by Steve Sandifer

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LTL Less than Truckload Lot
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Shipping 1920-1950

• U. S. Postal Service
• Railway Express
• Less-than-Carload Lot (LCL)
• Freight Forwarders Non RR originated LCL.

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National Carloadings

• 1921 28
• 1932 32
• 1940 21
• 1945 13
• 1950 11
• 1955 8.5
• 1959 6.8

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Trap Cars
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Ferry Cars
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Peddler Car (Waycar, Route Car)
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BM LCL load, 1949
A wheelbarrow going to Hillsboro. Some gallon
cans of Sears Roebuck paint in transit to Antrim.
We have two boxes of General Electric light
bulbs, other boxes of Kleenex. A carton of crepe
paper, Halloween cups from the C. A. Reed Company
of Williamsport, PA, is part of our freight.
Plumbers equipment for John J. Carey is in one
corner of the car. Near the door are cans of
poultry feed. A box of Hallmark greeting cards is
in the car. We are carrying garden hose, tools.
Spiegels mail order house in Chicago has given
us a shipment of small furniture, crated, a
Montgomery Ward canoe is another of our items.
R. M. Neal
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Stop-Off Cars
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Reefers in L.C.L
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Route Cars Meat Packers
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LCL - Ports
GHH, IGN, MKT - Galveston
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Santa Fe Trail Transportation
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Corwith (Chicago)
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Corwith (Chicago)
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1946 Corwith Transfer

• Nerska
• Joliet
• Streator (2 cars)
• Galesburg
• Fort Madison
• Kansas City Transfer
• Kansas City proper
• Atchison
• Topeka
• Emporia
• Hutchinson
• Salina

Dodge City Pueblo Denver Las Vegas Albuquerque Lo
s Angeles (12 cars) San Diego Phoenix Oakland Fres
no San Francisco (10 cars) Wichita
Transfer Wichita proper
Amarillo Clovis El Paso Chanute Tulsa Arkansas
City Oklahoma City Lubbock Fort
Worth Temple Dallas Houston
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ATSF Kansas City Transfer 1959
Russell Crump collection
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ATSF Kansas City Transfer 1959
Russell Crump collection
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ATSF Kansas City Transfer 1959
Russell Crump collection
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ATSF Kansas City Transfer 1959
Russell Crump collection
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ATSF Kansas City Outbound 1920s
Russell Crump collection
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UP
CRIP
MKT
CMStP
ATSF
CBQ
Alton
Frisco
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Early ATSF Freight House, Kansas City
ATSF
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ATSF Kansas City Transfer 1953
Cleveland (NKP, NYC) Detroit (NYC, MC) Fort Wayne
(PRR) Galewood Transfer (CMSTPP) Gibson Transfer
(NYC, IHB) Grand Rapids (CO, PM) Hornell
Transfer NY (Erie) Indianapolis (NYC) Memphis
(SLSF) Milwaukee (CMSTPP) Minneapolis (MSTL)
Peoria (MSTL) Springfield (SLSF) St. Louis
(MoPac, Wabash) Utica Transfer (NYC) Santa Fe
transfer houses Albuquerque Amarillo Corwith Wich
ita.
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TOFC 1951 Experiment
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St. Joseph, Missouri
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Alma Branch local
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Emporia
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Emporia
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Emporia
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Emporia 1946 Incoming LCL - Rail

• Corwith block 27 to Emporia on train 37.
• Kansas City block 745 to Emporia on train 35.
• Kansas City block 747 to Emporia Transfer on
  train 35.
• Kansas City block 749 to Emporia Transfer on
  train 35.
• Kansas City block 751 to Emporia Transfer on
  train 35, loads perishable

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Emporia 1946 Outgoing LCL - Rail

• Emporia block 1 to Wiggam on train 66 local
  eastbound toward Kansas City, Tu., Th., Sa.
• Emporia block 2 to Strong City on train 75,
  Strong City to Osborne, Daily.
• Emporia block 3 on train 59, Saffordville to
  Osborne, Wed.
• Emporia block 4 on mixed train 96, Ople to
  Moline, Wed. and Fri.

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Emporia 1946 Incoming LCL - Truck

• Topeka block 97 to Emporia
• Wichita block 96 to Emporia

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Santa Fe Freight Depots
San Francisco, built 1952From Railway Age
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
San Francisco, built 1952From Railway Age
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Atchison, KS
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
San Angelo, TX
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Trinidad, CO
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Brenham, TX
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Lampasas, TX
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Fort Worth, TX
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
El Dorado, KS
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Santa Fe Freight Depots
Raton, NM
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Modeling L.C.L. Service
Models by Bob Barnett
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LCL Schedule

• 300 am Cars begin to arrive
• 700 am Most cars have arrived
• Unloading and reloading continues all day
• 430 pm Closed to new shipment
• 700 pm Cars pulled for shipment

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LCL Trap Cars

• Furniture manufacturing
• Textile mill
• Appliance manufacturer
• Candy factory
• Mail order warehouse

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Ferry Cars

• From one railroads freight house to another
  railroads freight house.
• Remember that the Corwith Nerska job only moved
  2 miles.

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The End