I dont see much evidnce that Conrail handled LTL,LCL or Railway Express Agency traffic. Like most of the terminals are gone as well as loading unloading platforms. I only have seen one platform and that was at Alinace OH
REA was dead and gone prior to Conrail. LCL was pretty well gone, handled by any open agency. LTL - the east was full of circus ramps that CR killed off (justifiably) until the only ones left were at pig terminals or somewhere that could justify a mechanical department presence.
(Cincinnati, at one point, had six CR circus ramps…absurd)
LTL was handled by the truckers…Yellow, Roadway, Consolidated Freightways, ABF, and Clipper (actually a freight forwarder).
Most of the LTL handled by Conrail would have handled on certain markets…primarily St. Louis or Chicago to NYC or Boston as this freight was extremely time sensitive. Most of the trailers were the 28 foot pups, as those were standard equipment for LTL operations.
ed
Ed has it exactly right. Conrail did a very good job of transforming PC’s dysfunctional interminable operation and making it earn its keep.
Seems to me this is the second or third question about the REA. Some of the question have implied a connection to other companies. There is history available to read on the internet. Ie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Express_Agency In the first paragraph you can find when REA ceased to be. In this next resource you can see when Conrail started: http://www.conrail.com/history.htm
I appreciate the questions here and there’s no such thing as a dumb question. Stupid maybe but not dumb. Anyway I did a oogle google search and came up with the above shared information.
I hope that helps.
Five sentences, two links, and a supercilious attitude to say what mudchicken said days ago in eight words. Fascinating.
Ever hear of supportive documentation? I thought so.