Fifty years ago today, a ship left Newark, NJ bound for Houston, Texas with a load of the first intermodal containers. A new deck was constructed, over the pipes on the deck of a tanker, to hold the containers. Wow, we have come a long way. http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/conc1en/idealx.html
Strangely enough, I just wrote a 40 page paper and gave a 30 minute presentation on container transport for my college International Logistics class. A truly interesting subject (and enjoyable given the relations to and information I could research and present on trains as well, lol). We sure have come a long way and I can't imagine railroads today without those stack trains. Heck, if it weren't for those stacks, Conrail may have never been what it was!
Wow! Interesting topic.... I didn't realize that Intermodal was that old. Now, to get those GP-7/9 folks to run Intermodal :teeth:
