From: ahk@chinet.com

conklin  wrote:

>   Even subway stations are attended.  And those old RR stations also had a
>freight agent, usually in a separate building.  They most certainly were
>staffed. . . .

Is conklin wrong about this? It's my understanding that a wayside station
would have had an agent who sold both intercity (or suburban) passenger
fares and wrote up freight waybills and sold LCL. If there was enough
LCL, the station may have had a baggage room attendant. There could have
been a separate freight house with enough business.

A separate agent for freight and passenger? I don't see how there would
have been enough business.

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