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English: A ferry truck backs up the Montrose Avenue ramp and onto a string of waiting flatcars specially designed to secure the containers on September 2, 1927. Loading of the containers onto the flatcars was accomplished by backing one trailer at a time up a ramp and onto the flatcars, a procedure still used today for piggyback freight operations. The North Shore Line reported it took an average loading time of nine minutes at Montrose in Chicago where only one ramp was available, whereas it took an average of only two minutes at Harrison Street Milwaukee where several ramps were available. |
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| Source | Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, Lou Gerard Collection, www.Chicago-L.org |
| Author | Unknown photographer |
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