I think that there were also some refrigerator cars built with double
door sets that were designed to be loaded twice for the same destination.
The NP had some cars that had a divider down the middle and the ice bunkers
usable in one end but removed in the other. This would seem like a reasonable
type of car for the LCL business. Your general merchandise in one end and the
Apples and Pears in the other.
Cars out of freight houses often would have doors come open and it was always
surprising how stuff was loaded. Many times the car would look like the back
room of a department store. Nothing was palletized and no heavy shipping boxes
were used. When you went down to Woolworths and bought a pair of shoes the box
they gave you could very well have been sitting on the floor of a box car with
hundreds of other boxes stacked on top of and around it. I can recall a car
involved in a derailment at Belmont that had garden hose loaded in it. No boxes
at all just the reels of hose like you would see in your hardware store.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Vlk
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 19 December, 2005 11:39
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Transfer cars
Rupert-
I don't think they would have been used in "specials".....
This is all speculation on my part, but I think they were just provided to
the furniture manufactures who loaded them up with goods going to the same
area....
say towns along the same mainline... and the cars were loaded with the town
order in mind. The car would be spotted on the team track at each town or,
in the case of a small order, simply unloaded like an LCL car in a
wayfreight.
The NP had some very long (60'??) two door boxcars used in LCL service so
this must have been a common concept for the 1880s and 1890s.
Merry Christmas!
Charlie Vlk
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