Cars Picked Up Without a Work Order Form

[Puddlejumper]

There was a KCS boxcar sitting not far from here, on a spur off the NEC (Amtrak) for 5 years or so. The NS local switched that spur probably a hundred times since it was left there (It had been unloaded after it's last delivery and just forgotten about). I had wondered why the NS crews never pulled that car. I would have, and just done the paperwork when I got back to the yard office. A friend of mine that still works at CSX checked and it was not in the CSX or NS databases, but it was there on the spur rusting away. So he called the KCS and made them aware. A few weeks later it was inspected and pulled.

I wonder what the per diem charge was on THAT sucker!