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[CBQ] Flex-i-van Service

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From: Ed DeRouin <Ed@pixelspublishing.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:58:47 -0500
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Listers:

As far as I can tell, the use of Flex-i-vans by the CB&Q was primarilly to
transport meat and packing house products (php). Unlike containers used by
NYC, Milw, IC, and others, the  CB&Q containers were refrigerators. I
beleive that they were used to move said product from Iowa to Chicago in
dedicated service. 

The Flex-i-vans were retired early. I do not have a date, but recall seeing
them stored in Chicago in 1970. The reason for the early demise was that
highway trailer on flatcar was less expensive than Flex-i-van. No bogey
storage, etc. With more traffic moving via TOFC, fewer passenger trains, no
express trains, the business shifted.

Ed



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