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peggyrothschild
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Ryan
Unless someone took one home there shouldn’t be any freight consists available. Dispatcher sheets would record a passenger train consist but not freight. The railroads were to destroy any car movement records after five years and we had station auditors and Supervisors making sure the policy was complied with. One, there generally wasn’t room to store all that paperwork, two rate sharks could only go back five years (these were individuals that would find a cheaper freight rate on a commodity and go back in history for refunds for a shipper and charge a fee or percentage) and three the lawyers didn’t want lawsuits being able to go back anymore than the five year statutes of limitation.