FI-P-488
Organization: Canadian Pacific
Product: Information sheet
Year: 1960s
Product copy
The Canadian Pacific New Look in freight car equipment
Perfectly round… that’s the way rolls of newsprint must travel.
To keep them in shape during transit is the job of Canadian Pacific’s fleet of boxcars designed specifically for newsprint service. Yet another example of specialization in freight car equipment, the cars give their delicate, high-value cargo tender care all the way.
Two tiers of newsprint rolls can be carried in these high-capacity cars, which also have nine-foot-wide door openings, allowing use of fork lift trucks for fast loading and unloading.
Easily recognized by their red shield – and on the latest cars by a striking green and white color scheme with stylized pine – tree symbol the newsprint cars have a specially – designed cushion underframe to reduce coupling impact.
It’s the only way to treat such a delicate cargo.
Specifications
Capacity 5,090 cu. ft.
Load limit 152,500 lb. ( 157,000 lb. in new cars )
Length inside 50 ft. 6 in.
Width inside 9 ft. 2 in.
Height inside 11 ft.
Side door opening width 9 ft.
Side door opening height 10 ft. 4 in.
Height (rail to top of running boards) 15 ft. 6 in.
Height (rail to top of floor) 3 ft. 9 in.
Length between pulling faces of couplers 57 ft.
Source
The physical version of this product is part of the Federal identity archive.
