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In the late 1960’s the Mopac began putting on mobile agents in these vans to allow agencies to be closed. As example there would be a mobile agent at Atchison that served the NKD. The agent would pick up bills of ladings, obtain car orders, etc and bring back to a larger city’s Customer Service Center for making waybills and contacting Car Control to fill the orders for empties. The MP would then go to the various states to have hearings to close the manned agencies arguing that the local agent had been replaced by the mobile agent and had no customer duties. These mobile agent positions were later held in the CSCs and customers were provided an 800 number. At its peak MP had 80 CSCs with these being consolidated and at the time of merger around 10-12 including the three border points in Texas. I don’t recall seeing a list of mobile agents or the vans.
