It was operated as a separate company with the railway charging them to haul express cars on trains.
Miners often compared their status to that of company-owned horses that hauled coal cars inside the mines.
In 1990 the Bridgeport Police Department hauled 777 abandoned cars to the junkyard.
One afternoon, they were hauling lettuce and two-by-fours, frozen turkeys, cars and paper towels, just about all the things that Americans use and consume.
The other three were from November 1983 pooled with 1200 railcars as locomotive hauled cars to operate South Coast services.
I hit pay dirt and found eight different freight trains that hauled ore cars loaded with limestone.
They are used to haul the UP business cars and for charter specials.
Some of the early railroad companies attempted to alleviate the problems by adding passenger cars to the trains that hauled early stock cars.
At one point, the singing was nearly drowned out by an 18-wheeler hauling junked cars onto the Bruckner.
"One day the tow trucks showed up and began hauling cars away," Mr. Stoll said.