I watched a auto carrier train pass by and I was wondering because the train cars are different names do the automobles inside get delivered to the area the auto carriers are from? rambo1…
Not very likely. With railroads freely interchanging rolling stock, the automobiles are loaded onto whatever rail cars happen to be available at the time, regardless of their point of origin.
I believe most car carriers are owned by TTX Corp, and the names on the carriers are according to the percentage of TTX that each co. owns or The TTX fleet is divided among its member railroads , so acordingly the cars are pooled , so first car in gets loaded for where ever
no matter what RR will pull them
The flat cars are owned by TTX (if they have TTX Company reporting marks), but the racks are owned (and provided) by the railroad whose name or logo appears on them.
These racks are not always interchangeable among auto manufacturers–it used to be that each manufacturer had its own pool of cars, but they may have gotten away from this. Still, bilevels, trilevels, or high trilevels are intended for different uses and are definitely not interchangeable, and I believe that the BTTX articulated flats are used only by specific manufacturers, not by just anyone who needs a bilevel.
No ,They go were ever they are being taken by the loco.