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I talked to Dan Misenheimer this afternoon as he was at Shreveport when this mill was opened. Dan was pretty sure it’s the IP Bayou Pierre near Mansfield. Besides the MP serving the mill the KCS also was the other carrier. The MP switched the plant as by the 1970’s with computerization made it difficult to have two roads moving cars around and trying to maintain the plant’s inventory. I also did a google map search and verified this was the mill at Bayou Pierre.
The plant at Pine Bluff was switched by the MP on daylights and SSW on second shift. I think third shift was rotated. The SSW clerks were taught TCS and that’s how the inventory was maintained. MP installed a dedicated 3270 terminal connected to its mainframe at Pine Bluff and Bayou Pierre and the plant personnel did their own empty releases and outbound billing directly into TCS. A first in the RR industry.
