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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 25, 2008
Caption: Boxcar #43651
Additional Description: From one of the park's inside displays:
Railroads employed boxcars to transport products and commodities that required protection from the weather or against breakage. These cars varied in shape and size according to the freight they were designed to haul. Some hauled automobile parts, others hauled lumber, groceries, household appliances or grain. Since their early use, boxcars have increased in length, cubic capacity and weight-carrying ability.

Today, freight once hauled in boxcars is shipped "piggyback" in trailers or containers carried on a flat car. Using piggyback service, shippers can easily transfer freight from one system of transportation - rail, highway, or sea - to another.
Submitted: June 9, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p66607
File Size: 0.809 Megabytes

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