Avoidable Waste in Car Operation — The Container Car

This paper describes the “container” cars which have recently been placed in service on the New York Central Lines.

The advantages claimed for the container car are that less-than-carload lots of freight, mail and express may be shipped with a material saving of time to the shipper and the railroad company, in that the container car may be rapidly unloaded and reloaded. The car will also permit the railroad to secure the maximum mileage out of rolling stock.

Valuable commodities of all kinds can be transported from consignor to consignee inviolate from damage by fire, weather, breakage or theft, also eliminating to a great extent rehandling, trucking and checking.