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Hi Tom, Re #1; Somewhere I have a shot of UP 53'-6" GSC flat with two containers. Late 60s, might not be 1967, probably 1969 (my preferred era). It'll take some digging. Have not come across any other so modified cars. Looks like there was a cradle added to the deck. In one of the employee mags, there was an article about Burlington 20' containers being used to haul Hawaiian pineapples from the west coast. Thanks! Jeff Jeff Worones Seattle WA
From: thommack <thommack@yahoo.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:38 AM Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Container Operations in 1967 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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