Transloading on Uintah Ry

Tomstp Wrote:
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> I helped another guy unload a SP 50 ft. box car
> full of drilling mud in 100lb sacks in the heat of
> August 1959. Let me tell you that is NOT FUN.
> That darn stuff was in large bags and the material
> was very loose and the sack would bend in the
> middle. This made it even less fun to try to pile
> it high in the warehouse. That was the hardest
> .02 cents a sack I ever made.
>
> I guarantee you nobody that has done it would
> want to transfer that stuff from car to car
> nowadays.
>
In one of the freight rate cases brought against the Uintah, the complaints included a charge for overwieght bags of gilsonite, which the complaintent thought unreasonable. The ICC found that the entire fee went directly to the guys doing the transloading and ruled that it was reasonable.
I can't find my photo-copy of the case or I'd give the case number, how big the bags were, and what the per pound (IIRC) charge for being overweight was.
hank