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Canadian  Pacific  Railway  Employee  News  Articles
May/June 1969        
Volume 8, Number 3



WP&YR Shipment - New Boxcar

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.

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