Percent of Fleet Home Road?

Karl,

I remember that article too. I believe the contract was to move bandages to another J&J facility in New Jersey. Due to the bulkiness of the product the only cost effective way to move the product that far was to use those gigantic auto parts cars. I bet they were full to the very top.

Wonder how long that contract lasted?

 

In the September 1974 All Aboard, page 8 is the article we were thinking about Karl. It is titled "Team Work & Tonnage." Per the article there were two movements: one between Sherman, TX and Argonne, IL (SLSF-ATSF); the other between Sherman and New Brunswick, NJ (SLSF-PC). Eighteen 86' High cube cars were cleaned and relined with new plywood and specially painted for the movement of bandages, cotton balls and medical supplies for Johnson & Johnson. This traffic formerly moved in J&J's own trucks.

This is great information for waybilling those auto parts box cars.