Vol. 18 No. 11  December 1988/January 1989 Safety - Priority #1   Special Team Maintains Equipment   The fleet of newsprint cars used by CP Rail to transport paper for mills like Kruger Inc.'s are second to none.   Seventy percent of them in fact, are owned by the railway and are meticulously kept by specially trained repair crew at St.Luc Yard in Montreal who maintain about 40 cars each month.   "This maintenance team plays a large role in reducing car defects and subsequent customer complaints", said George Morris, manager, pulp and paper for Intermodal Freight Systems.   To reduce the possibility of damage to the rolls of paper, the interiors of the cars have been finished with plywood walls and hardwood floors. All joints have been smoothed out to prevent tearing of the product in transit.   Should damage occur, however, CP Rail, in conjunction with Conrail and other U.S. railways, has established an optional claims deductible provision which automatically compensates the shipper with a minimum of delay.   ADVANTAGE   The special boxcars also provide the railway with a distinct advantage over trucks on long-haul shipments.   With rolls of coated paper weighing two tonnes each and newsprint tipping the scales at one tonne a roll, a single boxcar with a capacity to handle 70 tonnes is economically attractive indeed.   It would take three highway tractor-trailer units to handle the equivalent of one railcar load of newsprint, something to think about when you thumb through the next Saturday edition.   This CP Rail News article is copyright 1989 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.