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Car Service Rules – 1 thru ACACSO Spring Meetin g May, 2008 Chicago, IL

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Page 1: Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL

Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6

ACACSO Spring Meeting

May, 2008

Chicago, IL

Page 2: Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL

Car Service Rules:

The basic reason for the rules is to provide the railroad marked car owner with protection of its freight car assets and provide a framework for maximizing freight car utilization in North America.

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Car Service Rules:

Page 4: Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL

Car Service Rules:

The Rules do not prevent subscribers from entering into other agreements which may differ from the rules.

Bi-lateral agreements supersede the rules.

Page 5: Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL

Rule 1: Loading of Empty Foreign Cars

Purpose:

Unless Covered by a Special Car order or Car Service directive, allows for loading or reloading box cars, gondolas and flat cars, to any destination, without the need to contact the car owner.

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Car Service Rules:Rules, Directives, Orders

Car Service Rules

Car Service Directives

Special Car Orders

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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not

Needed for Loading

Purpose:

Promotes expedient return of empty freight cars to car owners without the need to gain permission from other railroads to accept empty cars moving to home rails

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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not

Needed for Loading OPTIONS - DIRECT CONNECTIONS •Deliver to the car owner at any junction.

•Deliver to a direct connection of the car owner at the junction where car was received as a loaded shipment

•Cannot reverse the car to a road that is not a direct connection.

•Must deliver owner’s car when at a junction with the car owner.

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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not

Needed for Loading OPTIONS - INDIRECT CONNECTIONS •Reverse route to the junction where received.

OPTIONS - SWITCH SERVICE •Reverse route to the trunk line unless at a junction with the car owner.

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Rule 4: Car Flow Balancing

PURPOSE:

Allows for central voluntary administration by AAR for flowing empty freight cars owned by the participants under a predetermined formula to balance car supply.

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Rule 5: Boxcars Moving Under

49 CFR 1039.14

PURPOSE:

Unless a railroad has it’s own tariff for handling empty freight cars it may choose to charge the U.S. dollar amount specified in the rule ($.62 per mile) for cars moving out of their car service route

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Rule 6: Demand for the Return of

Empty Cars to Original Junction

PURPOSE:

Allows a railroad to plan for return of freight cars at a specified junction.

Cannot be invoked for bad order cars returning home for repairs.