Weber Canyon derailment, 1977.
I think I see a Whirlpool logo. Then it must be home appliances from the Midwest on a Westbound.
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RE: Yellow stripe car. Quote below from MDO says it indicated paper/lumber use. So perhaps these SP cars were destined to head west on the SP from Ogden, thence up to the paper/lumber shippers in Oregon?
Quote:trainorders.com
Date: 12/02/09 14:03
Re: SP Boxcar Yellow door?
Author: mdo
OK, the real story.
Both the yellow door on the fifty footers and the yellow stripe on the forty footers was a marketing ploy.
SP converted a number of single door fifty footers to double doors and a very large number of narrow door
forty foot cars to wide doors. The yellow door/stripe was there to tell the lumber/paper shippers that
the SP had done this to help them with their load-out operations. Fork lifts, you know.
I suppose that you had to be in either Oregon or Northern California in the late 1960's to know about
this little marketing campaign. Of course, you all know that I was.
For the paper shippers there was the Evergreen fleet.
mdo
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