Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: Intermodal Railroading
Intermodal Railroading
Author: Brian Solomon
Price £25.00
This richly illustrated history chronicles one of the most revolutionary developments in freight railroading during the twentieth century: intermodal shipping, or the use of containers to move cargo between trains, trucks, and oceangoing vessels. It was a development that transformed the movement of freight around the world, with an almost incalculable impact on American industry. Intermodal railroading in North America begins tentatively, with attempts at piggybacking in the 1930's, before moving on to more serious developments in the period from World War II through the 1960's, notably by Canadian Pacific and the New Haven and Southern Pacific railroads.
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