. Railway age gazette . Car Ready for Shipping Stock the same time loaded box cars carrying general merchandise aremoved in the same direction and frequently are returned emptyto the originating point. For a number of years E. D. Levy, as-sistant general manager of the Frisco lines, has been endeavor-. Car Ready for Shipping Merchandise ing to decrease this cross hauling of empty cars. Attempts weremade to use the stock cars for carrying general merchandise,the roof and sides being covered with tar paper for this tem-porary use. This, however, was unsatisfactory on account of January, 1914. RA
. Railway age gazette . Car Ready for Shipping Stock the same time loaded box cars carrying general merchandise aremoved in the same direction and frequently are returned emptyto the originating point. For a number of years E. D. Levy, as-sistant general manager of the Frisco lines, has been endeavor-. Car Ready for Shipping Merchandise ing to decrease this cross hauling of empty cars. Attempts weremade to use the stock cars for carrying general merchandise,the roof and sides being covered with tar paper for this tem-porary use. This, however, was unsatisfactory on account of January, 1914. RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE. MECHANICAL EDITION 29 >the construction of the cars, and only a small percentage of that more readily permits of its conversion. With these excep- them could be used in this way. tions the. car is essentially identical with the new Frisco box In order to obtain a stock car that could be more readily con- car, described in the October, 1913, number of the Railway Age
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