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Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Container Operations in 1967
From: "thommack" <thommack@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 18:38:53 -0000
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I was looking through my 1967 CB&Q Annual Report (released May, 1968)and ran 
across a very interesting photo on page 4. It shows a "down on" view of 
apparently shot from some elevated vantage point of the container operations at 
Cicero yard. Being unloaded from a flat car is a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines 20' 
container that also has a large "AIWA-SELECTRON" sign attached to the container 
ribs. The caption photo says "Container loads of Japanese electronic wares are 
unloaded at Cicero yard, on Chicago's western limits."

Here are some interesting observations and a question:

1. The 20' containers are not on 89' container flats. There are two of them 
each on GSC flat cars (clearly identified by the wooden deck pattern). Anyone 
know what length and whose GSC flat cars would have been modified for twin 20' 
container carrying in 1967? Were these actually CB&Q flats?

2. The containers are being unloaded using an old Whiting gantry crane. The 
crane is an old rail mounted gantry crane apparently already at Cicero. It is 
not a rubber tired gantry crane like you usually think of for containers and 
piggyback, and which the Q actually purchased for Cicero in 1965 (a 171,400 
pound capacity LeTorneau Series ST-40 pictured on page 18 of the 1965 Annual 
Report). The container is being lifted by four cables, one cable hooked at each 
top corner of the container, not by some actual container lifting device like 
is used today.

3. Does anyone know if these containers were offloaded anywhere else other than 
Cicero? e.g. Might they have gone to the Twin Cities for offload there, or was 
container traffic pretty much between the west coast and Chicago only?

Hope this gets some lively discussion going!

Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH



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