Where can I find pictures of what is in boxcars and how stuff is packed in there? For example, the auto parts boxcars, what is in there and how do auto plants utilize the cars in their production?
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While I don’t have pictures, I can tell you they carried quite a variety of goods. In Hoboken, where I grew up, we had a small yard for loading train cars onto float barges for interchange with other railroads in NY harbor. As teenagers, we were curious, and occasionally open a car. From Maxwell House there would be cases of coffee stacked in cartons; from Wonder Bread/ Hostess, they would receive 50 pound sacks of coconut (probably for Snowballs), and we had Lipton Tea, American Can Co., Bethlehem Shipyards, and we even found cases of shoes in boxcars.
Here's a page that shows carrying grain in boxcars.
Rusty
@Rusty Traque posted:Here's a page that shows carrying grain in boxcars.
Rusty
Well that's fascinating! I didn't know that was done.
This is a cool video about Grain Elevators and Boxcars, The way it was 
And the unloading of boxcars
Edmund, Auto parts(components) are often moved in what the auto industry calls RACKS. Not like a clothing rack, more like an open top box constructed of metal bars. They could stack two, three or four high in a high cube box car. They are moved by fork lift and via floor conveyers pulling carts.
Food stuffs are generally loaded and unloaded by fork lift. The interior walls of food service DF cars can be adjusted if necessary. After the last unit is loaded, an inflatable one time use bag is placed to fill the space between the units.
Appliances are loaded by hand, some on their side to use as much of the interior space as possible. Automobiles are man handled into place then chocked and strapped in.
John
@BillYo414 posted:Well that's fascinating! I didn't know that was done.
Bill, same process has been used for coal. Not too much different for potatoes. John
My photo link below has a bunch. You can make everything on a PC using Ms Excel.
@rattler21 posted:Bill, same process has been used for coal. Not too much different for potatoes. John
That's really cool. Pretty awesome modelling opportunity there.
