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UP spilled some cargo - 1977

Author: photo post

Date: 10-10-2022 - 22:30

Weber Canyon derailment, 1977.

I think I see a Whirlpool logo. Then it must be home appliances from the Midwest on a Westbound.

Source (not my image) - [www.ebay.com]

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?

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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

[www.trainorders.com]

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photo post Wrote:
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> Weber Canyon derailment, 1977.  
> 
> I think I see a Whirlpool logo.  Then it must be
> home appliances from the Midwest on a Westbound.
> 
> Source (not my image) -
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/234720060368
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,
> 2068909
> 
>

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