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Two for the price of one, Canadian National says its new deep flat cars can handle twice as many containers now
Two for the price of one, Canadian National says its new deep flat cars can handle twice as many containers now

Two for the price of one, Canadian National says its new deep flat cars can handle twice as many containers now

Date11/27/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Two for the price of one; Canadian National says its new deep flat cars can handle twice as many containers now. The company inaugurated its double-stacking railcar service on the weekend when it shipped 40 double-stacked containers to Concord (shown above) from Halifax. CN says it can move twice the volume of freight in the same amount of space; (which) results in reduced costs.
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Image shows loading containers in progress.
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