NEB&W Guide To Open Top LCL Cars & ContainersThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-06-29
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Containers are a big big facet of today's railroading. This page is limited to just the pioneering use of containers in steam days. (LCL = Less than Car Load.) Some box cars were also equipped to carry LCL, but that is outside the scope of this section, as there isn't much external visible difference.
John White has traced use of containers back to the earliest days of railroading. It was the development of motorized highway transport c. WWI that really got the