Agents?

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Thanks for the insights. I guess a regular agent would be set up at a
particular location and a traveling agent as you said would call on people
maybe even off line for business. I see that most of them were in junction
cities or places where there interchanges with other lines.

 

Robert Mee

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Robert Mee-

Maybe I shoulda looked in The Official Guide

before responding to your question.  Traveling

Freight Agents did not work for the Transpor-

tation Department.  Believe the hopper cops

were known as Traveling Agents.

 

The Traffic Department had offices spread

all over the country -- Pittsburgh, San

Francisco, Durham, and many others.  The

Traveling Freight Agent solicited traffic from

out-of-town customers. For example, the

Traveling Freight Agent at Durham would

call on Westinghouse at Raleigh, Weyer-

hauser at Plymouth, and usually the local

station agent for the railroad.  C&O's

Traveling Freight Agent paid a visit to 

Chocowinity and while I was copying a 

train order, he was flipping through the

waybills to determine if there was any

traffic that could be diverted to C&O.

                                       Harry Bundy





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