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C&O Schedule of Package Cars No. 6 – 1930
This booklet gives details on how Less-Than-Carload (LCL}reight was handled on the C&O. The time period is 1930 when this type of traffic was at its height, but the schedules and connections given remained fairly static until about 1950 when the LCL business began a steep decline as a result of competition from trucks on good roads, which began taking most of the business. This trend had started in the 1930s, but really didn’t get up to speed until the decade following WWII. By 1960 railroad LCL freight had virtually dried up!
LCL freight operations are interesting in that most cities of any size had a fairly large warehouse-type freight station with many tracks for parking box cars, and a loading platform for trucks to pick up the packages and take them to the homes and business for which they were intended.
Small towns usually had a combined freight and passenger station that served the
same function.
C&O Schedule of Package Cars No. 6 – 1930
This booklet gives details on how Less-Than-Carload (LCL}reight was handled on the C&O. The time period is 1930 when this type of traffic was at its height, but the schedules and connections given remained fairly static until about 1950 when the LCL business began a steep decline as a result of competition from trucks on good roads, which began taking most of the business. This trend had started in the 1930s, but really didn’t get up to speed until the decade following WWII. By 1960 railroad LCL freight had virtually dried up!
LCL freight operations are interesting in that most cities of any size had a fairly large warehouse-type freight station with many tracks for parking box cars, and a loading platform for trucks to pick up the packages and take them to the homes and business for which they were intended.
Small towns usually had a combined freight and passenger station that served the
same function.
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