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Nostalgia & History > Originating traffic on the ClinchfieldDate: 02/17/17 09:20 Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: march_hare Back in the 1970s, I would occasionally see Clinchfield boxcars, advertising their "cushioned car" status, in D&H freight trains. I knew enough at the time to know that CRR was mostly a coal road. We never saw Clinchfield hoppers until the Chessie System merger took hold.
So what was CRR shipping in boxcars? I want to say something like hardwood furniture, which was a big industry down there. I'm now modeling the D&H of the 1970s, and would like to have waybills for those CRR boxcars that I bought a few years back. Anybody have info on this? Date: 02/17/17 13:31 Re: Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: briancdn I referred this question to Dominic Bourgeois, Author of the 2 volume set 'D&H Bridge Line Freight" by Railroad Explorer; and this was his reply.
"My D&H waybill database, which comes from the Operations SIG and only covers cars transiting through Allentown Yard, only contains this entry for Clinchfield boxcars: NE8404/01/1977 CRR7202XLKingsportTNMead CorpRourke ENO Paper CoWilmingtonMACRR NW WM CR DH BM Printing Paper But furniture to Albany, Boston, Montreal or anywhere else furniture could be distributed is a good possibility too. Dom" So either printing paper or Furniture would be relevant. Brian N. Date: 02/17/17 16:36 Re: Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: march_hare Didn't know there was a paper mill on CRR. Any idea where it was?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/17 05:34 by march_hare. Date: 02/17/17 17:14 Re: Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: west Hi,
Some of the Clinchfield RR boxcars were in pools assigned to off line customers: Some CRR boxcars were stenciled to return to Palatka, Florida (on the ACL) which has a Georgia-Pacific paper mill. Industries on the Clinchfield itself included a large Tennessee Eastman chemical plant; a Mead Corp (now Domtar) pulp/paper mill and the Blue Ridge Glass plant in Kingsport, TN. There was a large military munitions facility nearby also. All those could have generated boxcar loads, especially for DF or similar equiped cars. Don Date: 02/17/17 23:11 Re: Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: wpamtk When working the Tidewater Southern (late 70s), we periodically got Clinchfield boxcar loads of wooden spools going to American Thread in Turlock, CA.
Date: 02/19/17 07:16 Re: Originating traffic on the Clinchfield Author: march_hare Thanks to all (including a few responses off list). I learned a bit from this, will apply to layout planning.
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