Wallace W. Abbey by Kevin P. Keefe & Scott Lothes

Author:Kevin P. Keefe & Scott Lothes [Keefe, Kevin P. & Lothes, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Close-up view of a “piggyback” load—a truck trailer on a flatcar—on eastbound freight train no. 24 leaving Minneapolis’s Shoreham Yard in 1960. Piggyback business comprised less than 1 percent of U.S. rail freight in the 1950s, but managers of the Soo and many other railroads saw an opportunity for growth. Today, intermodal traffic—both truck trailers and shipping containers—comprises nearly one-quarter of all revenues of North America’s freight railroads.

Westbound freight train crossing the Camden Place Bridge over the Mississippi River on May 4, 1961. Located on the north side of Minneapolis, the 904-foot-long bridge opened in 1905 and carried the Soo’s main line out of the Twin Cities to the Canadian border. It remains a vital link today on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s route between Chicago and the West Coast.

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