High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Railgon Company owned railroad gondola cars available for use by multiple railroads by placing the cars in a cooperative pool. Due to routing arrangements and track usage agreements, gondola cars and other rolling stock are often used to transport goods on more than one railroad before reaching the end customer. Under the laws governing railway transport, individual railroads paid a fee, called demurrage, for the excess time other railroads held these cars (whether laden or not) prior to return to their owning road. The demurrage fees were thought to promote the rapid return of rolling stock, since delays equated to extra money spent. Because of the desire to reduce costs by minimizing demurrage, non-owning railroads may have declined the practice of allowing cars to continue on past their initial destination to points further from the car's "home". This had the effect of decreasing efficiency on these lines, and Railgon (and Railbox) used this argument to promote use of their rolling stock.

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