. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . loads to consignees, and an-other set immediately hoisted into placeand the car be ready to proceed withina matter of minutes in most locked containers may remain onstation platforms or at the stores ofshippers for loading or unloading atconvenience without tying up costly roll-ing .stock at points where track capacityis limited and congestion quickly obstructsthe flow of traffic unless the cars are keptmoving. With this rapid handling of thecontainers on and off the car the mil
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . loads to consignees, and an-other set immediately hoisted into placeand the car be ready to proceed withina matter of minutes in most locked containers may remain onstation platforms or at the stores ofshippers for loading or unloading atconvenience without tying up costly roll-ing .stock at points where track capacityis limited and congestion quickly obstructsthe flow of traffic unless the cars are keptmoving. With this rapid handling of thecontainers on and off the car the mileageper year made by the ordinary piece ofrolling stock may be doubled, and it ispredicted that the tremendous expense ofmaiitainirg box cars and other rolling December, 1921 RAILWAY AM) LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 32s stock C(|ual to all emerKencies will be new mail cars of improved design which materially cut down. are now being constructed will be The container car may make costly equipped with an improved type of all- packinsj and crating unnecessary because steel container. A new freight-type con-. UNLOADIXG A COXTAIXER FROM THE FREIGHT TYPE OF COXTAINER CAR goods packed in flimsy pasteboard boxesor even bound with heavy paper are pro-tected against breakage, theft and wateror weather damage. There are at present in service on theNew York Central Lines, three containercars one of the mail or express type, and tainer car is being designed, and refriger-ator and tank container cars are contem-plated. Gexer\l Description of the ContainerCarThe container car is nothing more thana long car with a steel side or fence, light as possible, in which commodities t,all kinds travel from consignor to con-signee, inviolate against thieves, fire,weather and breakage. The safes or con-tainers are lifted on and off the car bycranes or hoisting devices, permitting theparent rolling stock to continue in im-mediate transportation circulation. In ap-pearance the loaded car seems to be asolid load o
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