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May/June 1969
Volume 8,
Number 3
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WP&YR Shipment - New Boxcar
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 WP&YR Locomotives:
Built for narrow gauge White Pass & Yukon Route, seven 100-ton MLW-Worthington
diesel-electric locomotives and 200 National Steel Car-built container flatcars were
shipped "train-on-train" to Vancouver for barge transfer to Skagway, Alaska. William
O'Brien, supervisor production control & traffic MLW-Worthington and Richard St. Pierre,
Montreal CP Rail freight traffic representative appear in the top photograph.
WP&YR Flatcars: T.F. Rahilly, president & general manager, Keith Johnson, traffic manager,
both of National Steel Car Corporation, and O.V. Werner, district manager freight, Ken Griffiths, freight traffic
representative, both of CP Rail, Hamilton, appear in the bottom photo.
New High-Rise Cars: CP Rail has introduced a new boxcar which will be used by major
breweries in Quebec to transport beer between Montreal, Quebec City, Hull, and Sherbrooke.
The new car is a specially modified, insulated 50-foot boxcar with its roof raised two feet six
inches higher than a standard car. The extra height permits stacking of cases of beer on pallets in two tiers,
doubling the capacity of the car.
The prototype car, built at Angus Shops, Montreal, and equipped with moveable bulkheads, can carry in excess of
130,000 pounds. The standard insulated boxcar can carry only 65,000 pounds in one tier. The company plans to
construct 25 of the beer cars at Angus.
 "This
is another example of CP Rail's ability to adapt its equipment to suit any type of freight traffic", said
William Miller, general manager, pricing.
The car was designed specifically to meet the transportation requirements of the brewing industry after
consultation with industry representatives.
This CP Rail News article is copyright
1969 by Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with
their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
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