Vic,
Was there a difference in billing? I always thought a one hundred
car unit train operated on one bill rather than 100 separate bills.
Also re pre sixties unit trains, cars operated in a unit train could
and were generally operated as single cars on a day to day
basis. Unit cars of today are assigned equipment in most cases and
would generally never be used singly.
Peter
At 08:11 PM 06/11/2013, you wrote:
> Posted by:sutherail@xxxxxxxx sutherailPeter B. Bowers
> Date: Tue Nov 5, 2013 10:28 pm ((PST))
>
> I always thought the "Unit Train" concept required the train to stay together throughout one or more cycles. On CPR they started with the Fording coal trains in 1969 or 1970. No switching was involved at either end; the train set returned empty to the mine unchanged for another load. Other roads may have had earlier examples. <snip>
They didn't start with Fording. I was billing them out of Coleman
Collieries in Coleman, AB before Fording was even built. They were also
originating out of the Natal - Michel area (Cranbrook Sub) for decades
before that. Seems like potash trains out of Kalium (Indian Head Sub)
and several potash mines on the Sutherland Sub had them since at least
the 60's too.
VRP
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