. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . freight, and for the year 1920this mounted to a total of $125,000,000, theincidental injury to business affected be-ing considerably greater. Lnder the ordi-nary system of handling less-than-carload opennig the container in transit. At thedestination the locked container is un-loaded by a crane and carried by motortruck directly to the warehouse or con-signees door, to be unloaded at his con-venience. This simple system of handlinggoods will make it possible to greatly re-duce the force of em
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . freight, and for the year 1920this mounted to a total of $125,000,000, theincidental injury to business affected be-ing considerably greater. Lnder the ordi-nary system of handling less-than-carload opennig the container in transit. At thedestination the locked container is un-loaded by a crane and carried by motortruck directly to the warehouse or con-signees door, to be unloaded at his con-venience. This simple system of handlinggoods will make it possible to greatly re-duce the force of employees now .leces-sary. Another advantage of the container-carsystem expected to prove most valuableis the greatly increased use of containerrolling stock in moving service, which isparticularly important when traffic ex-pands to its peak and the prime need isto shorten layovers of cars in yards andstations for loading and unloading, andto limit their idleness and obstructionthrough misuse for storage purposes. Inbusy times the need is to keep every wheelturning as continuously as possible to se-. THE EXPRESS-T^ P1-: CO.\T.\I.\EK WITH fUK (.ii.\ THE .STEEE SIDES OE THE (.WK THE UliOKS OF THE C»NTAINER FROM BEING OPENED The container car was an outcome ofthe railroad congestion during the warand was first put into operation last yearby Mr. A. H. Smith, president of theNew York Central Lines, to reduce thetransportation losses due to congestionwhich tied up industry. This congestionwas caused by the railroads being unableto get rolling stock near the platformsor places where cars could be unloadedand reloaded and put back into some cases manufacturing plants usedbox cars as a storage warehouse, gladlypaying the demurrage charge by the rail-roads. It is hoped that mail, express andfreight robberies, breakage, checking andrehandling, delays to shippers, and manyother railroad evils may also be materi- Equipment Engineering Department,
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