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There was a hide house in Butler, MO. It was still receiving cars in the very early ’80s. It smelled and the cars smelled. As indicated in the other posts, the empty boxes for this commodity were in assigned service. That does not mean that they were restricted to one specific customer location. I’m sure they roamed the system as needed.
The oldheads I worked with talked about conductors making up phony mty waybills for these cars assigning them to a new location. This way they did not have to stop and switch at this olfactory offensive facility. This was prior to the TCS computer system implementation. I don’t know whether any of these individuals were ever caught and disciplined. During my career, this type of shenanigan was not possible due to oversight by the “magic” computer.
