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NORTHERN P/IL’/F/6'5’ P/6'6Piggyback operations on Northern Pacific

began when trailers-on-flatcars were trans-ported over its line between the Twin Citiesand Fargo, N.D., early in 1954. That was theyear TOFC first gained wide acceptanceamong shippers.

Today, TOFC service is the biggest news inshipping and NP Piggyback has grown into atranscontinental operation spanning sevenNorthwest states. Northern Pacific initiatedPiggyback service on the North Pacific Coastbetween Seattle and Portland and, in Mon-tana, the Railway pioneered TOFC movementsof lumber.

NP has a ready stock of versatile equipmentto meet the demands of its ever-expandingPiggyback operation. Besides its own fleet ofspecially-equipped flatca rs and various typesof highway trailers, it has membership inTrailer Train Company, the nation's largestPiggyback car rental firm.

Northern Pacific Transport Company»amotor carrier subsidiary of the Railway~ sup-plements the program with widespread over-the-highway service in Montana, Washington,Oregon and Idaho.

Nation-wide service is available via NorthernPacific in connection with other rail lines.Direct interchange is made with connectinglinesatMinneapolis-St. Paul, Portland, Laurel,Mont., and Pasco, Wash.

Now, more than ever, Northern Pacific isbringing the railway to your doorstep withmodern Piggyback service!

VARIOUS TYPES of trai/ers—flat beds, refrigerated vans andinsulated dry vans—are available in Northern Pacific ’sPig yback shipping operation. NP also has membershipin lgai/er Train Company ’s flatcar rental program, insuringit of an ample supply of TOFC equipment.

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LOADED JUST ONCE, an NP Piggyback insulated dry vanis hauled over the highway by truck to one of the Railway 's43 strategically-located OFC ramp points. From there,it's whisked Piggyback on fast freight train to destination.Minimum of hand/ing—minimum of damage.

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READY FLEET of mechanically refrigerated trailers is o_n

hand to handle NP ’s fast-growin Piggyback traffic in

The “marriage” of freight car and truck inwhat is now known as Piggyback service wasoriginally based on combining the merits ofrailwayand motor ca rrier ~the long-haul econ-omy of transporting cars in long trains, withthe short haul mobility of trucks. This createda new flexibility in shipping.

Northern Pacific is extending this flexibilityfarther and farther. For instance, NP foundthat unusual shipments once considered un-adaptable to conventional box car handlingcould be moved easily by the open Trailer-on~Flatcar method.

fresh fruit, frozen foods and meat. %erishables are justone Pl€8Yba°k has a|5° give" NP the °PP°"‘line of goods receiving gentle shipping treatment by NP tunity to efficiently serve off-track shippersPiggyback.

DOORSTEP DELIVERY and pick-up by truck complementsthe efficient, all-weather dependability of fast freight trainservice. With this combined train-truck service, even off-trackage locations can receive the benefits of long-haulrail shipping.

and receivers. Industrial plants located any-where can now utilize the full efficiency oflong-haul shipping by rail. Trucks reach off-track locations and whisk shipments to fastfreight trains just as though the shipper wereat track-side.

Once Piggyback trailers are placed on flat-cars, the inherent advantages of rail handlingcome into play. Railway all-weather depend-ability insures your shipment of movingthrough to destination without delay. Enroute,NP’s dependable tracing system keeps yourload spotted for you.

Best of all, NP Piggyback has shown thatit's kind to cargo. Thanks to a minimum ofhandling required in this type seniice, and thecushioning devices on Piggyback flatcars.damage is kept remarkably low.

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back service extends through seven states inthe Northwest Wisconsin, Minnesota, NorthDakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Wash-ington.

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TROUBLE SHOOTER—NP's portable ramp can be put into service SPEEDY ADJUSTMENT—In a matter of minutes, portable rampwherever needed. Truck hauls it to nearest rail point for Piggy- IS set up and adjusted for llatcar loading of Piggyback trailers.back shippers or receivers.

More flexibility-a portable ramp . . .Now, with a modern portable ramp, Northern needed. In minutes, the ramp is adjusted to flat-

Pacific easily extends its rapid Trailer-on-Flatcar car level and loading or unloading of Piggybackservice to communities not equipped with per- trailers is completed.ma"ent Piggyback ramps This "ramp on the go" is just another way that

A conventional truck tractor moves the ramp NP is making it easier for off-trackage shippers toover the highway and puts it into use wherever take advantage of its efficient Piggyback service.

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Extendible trailers provide the answer to manyof your problems of shipping loads of unusuallength. You receive job site delivery with a mini-mum amount of handling, and in many caseseliminate the need for costly over-the-road escortservice.

These trailers are normally 40 feet in length, butare extendible to 60 feet in increments of five feet.Articles exceeding 60 feet may be handled onthese trailers if an overhang is permissible.

STEEL MOVED — Sixty foot lengths of steel ride on new NP ex-tendible trailer. (Note arrows indicating area of trailer entension).

‘Anything goes’NP Piggyback

Machinery, fresh fruit, frozen foods, con-crete slabs and even airglane wings they'veall received the gentle N Piggyback shippingtreatment.

Practically anything that can be hauled btruck can ride Piggyback, and skilled Ni!crews find ways to position any type of loadsafely. Demand for this convenient servicehas become so great that all major NorthernPacific freight trains now carry Piggyback

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. . . and It's expeditedThis important traffic moves on fast, fre-

quent schedules which provide overnight andsecond morning delivery between several keyg‘ terminals. For example-

Overnight delivery between the Twin Citiesand Dulu h-Superior, Fargo-Moorhead, GrandForks-East Grand Forks, Brainerd, Detroit

~_ Lakes, Cloquet, Camp Ripley and Little Falls.There's also overnight delivery from the TwinCities to Fergus Falls in Minnesota, and ValleyCity, Jamestown, Bismarck, Mandan and

' Grand Forks Air Base in North Dakota.-'_: _S_econd morning delivery from the Twin

‘. . . . ‘ Cities to Dickinson, N.D., and to Glendive,Meat in NP mechanically refrigerated van gets gentle Piggyback Sidney Miles City and Bimngs in Montanatreatment. ' '

Overnight delivery between Seattle, Port-l land, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Olympia, Everett,

T Bellingham and intermediate points on NP'sWest end.

Second morning delivery from Seattle, Port-land, Tacoma, Bellingham and Everett toSpokane, Missoula, Walla Walla and Lewiston.Transcontinentally, there's third morning de-livery from the Twin Cities to the North PacificCoast and fourth morning delivery from the

l North Pacific Coast to the Twin Cities.E More and more shippers and receivers in

the Northwest are specifying NP Piggybackbecause of its dependable rail handling andstore-door delivery. Contact your NP freight

, traffic office (back page) soon. They'll beNorthern Pacific pioneered Piggyback movements of lumber in the happy to eXp|ain how N Piggyback can he|pNorthwest. YOU-

NORTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT TRAFFICAND P/66}’B/ll’/( OFFICES

Aberdeen, Wasl|., ?‘*i‘.7-.\—ROLllll 5, Union Station. Phone Milwaukee, Wis., ‘;3203- -913 Majestic Bldg. Phone BkLenox 2-ll-lJ. 6-2815,

Atlanta, Ca., 30303-3313 Healey Bldg. Phone Jackson Minneapolis, Minn.. 55~iO2~2Q) Minn. Federal Savings4-Sl l9. and Loan Bldg, 607 Marquette Ave, Phone FE 9-9146

Iellinglgm, Wash., 9822S—NP Station, Phone Regent Missoula, Mont., fi9‘3C‘l~NP Station. Phone Lincoln3-l . 3-3l6l.

Billings, Mont., _:9lOl—-NP Bldg, Montana Ave Phone New York, N. Y., l(X)2O—63O Fifth Ave, RoomAL 9-452i. International Bldg., Rockefeller Center, Phone Circle

lozeman, Mont.—6 N. Wallace. Phone S86-2359. 6-4053.Irgmleraon, Wash., 9B3lO—228 First St. Phone Essex Oaglagd, Calif., 9l5l2—6ll Central Bldg. Phone 451-

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Buffalo, N. Y., l4203—~60l-O3 Ellicot Sq. Phone TL Omaha, Neln., 68lO2—309 W.O.W. Bldg, l4th Cr4-6822, Farnam Streets. Phone 34l -7177.

Butte, Mont., 59TOl—NP Station. Phone 792-2520. Pasco, Wasl\., 993Ol—Clark 6 Tacoma Streets. PhoneChicago, l|l., 60603—-ll72 Marquette Bldg, Phone Fi- 547-3363.

nancial 6-6776. Philadelphia, Pa., l9lO9—-926-27 Fidelity~Phi|adelphiaCincinnati, Ohio, 45202—l-$09-lO Carew Tower, Phone Trust Bldg., I23 S. Broad St. Phone Kingsley S-Ol8l.

Cherry l-S938. Pittsburgh, Pa., l5222-—-608-9 Park Bldg. Phone AtlanticCleveland, Ohio, 441 l}—l334 Term. Tower Bldg. Phone l-0306.

Main l-2846. Portland, Ore., 97204-—707 Amer. Bank Bldg. PhoneDallas, Tens, 752Ol-—lOO9 Kirby Bldg. Phone Riverside CA7-0123.

7-7872. St. Louis, Mo., 63lO2—9l9 B0atmen's Bank Bldg. PhoneDenver, Colo., 80202-307 Railway Exchange Bldg. Garfield l-3280.

Phone Cherry 4-3743. St. Paul, Minn., 55lOl—NP Bldg, Sth C7 JacksonDetroit, Mich., 48226—8l0 Lafayette Bldg. Phone Streets Phone D2-7773.

Woodward 2-4934 and 2-4935. San Francisco, Calif., 9~llO5—l(D3 Monadnock Bldg.Duluth, Minn.. 55802—Union Depot, Room lll. Phone Phone SU l-lO78.

R/\Z-8353. Seattle, \Vas|\., 98lC\1 ISO Sinitli Tower, Phone MainEdmonton, Alta.—lO2Ol-lO4th St., Room 409, Northern 3-5560.

Hafdwa"? Bld€- Ph0@ Garden 44-454. Spokane, Wasl|., 9920l—NP Station, W. DI First Ave.Eugene, Ore., 974Ol—-Cascade Bldg, 163-l2th Ave, E Phone Madison 4-S321.

Phone 342-12" s ' .w'. "issi_202»' w" s Ph EEIGIQN, wISll., 982Ol~263l Broadway, Phone Alpine "§f§'§§2, "‘ 3 ° '“'e' 't °"e ‘°°"

9-lll7. T . W h.. 98-iO2——R 2O U ' S l7l3Fargo, N. D., 5SlO3—8Ol Main Ave. Phone Adams 'i§::?,c A397 phone Fu|g0,(1)o3nS3.;]]_ men Tan0n'

Tiléfnllge ldvzggé,---Room C-29, Union Station, Phone

Z391.Grand Forks, N. D., SBZOI-—-NP Station. Phone 774- VI-l‘7cSwl:lBLsrIe‘S?..P$1oneR0l\(/lri?tu€9-Q-§‘iglF Exchange Bldg‘-

Mom 596O]__NP Stanon Phone _'H2_]66O Victoria, B. C.—lOO6 Government St. Phone 2-9168.

lmemwii. $3100., S84Ol—NP Freight Office, Phone wig: 5“,§§'lB- w""-- 99362—NP 5’a'*°"- Ph°"@ lad“Cl t Z-3 4 . 7 'Kins; 025"‘ Mo" C4]0:_]27 W_ ioth St’ _Hi_i3 Washington. D._C.. 2'\1I))—§[1) Shoreham Bldg. PhoneBoard of Trade Bldg. Phone Victor 2-3l4l, Na"°"a| 'Q‘8“’O a"d 8867‘-

Le§1iston,O:1d%hg,駑35Ol—-Room ll, Union Station phafll-; wgzl F3é8?|- 55075‘/_U"lO“ Llveilock Bldg»erwo . one u er - ,

Livingston, Mont.—Parl< C1 "C" Streets. Phone 222- wg)"|"iP¢89_;g, 9M4!"--ERg40g'l 940. TF8"S-Canada Bldg.lBSl. ioiwe -7 5 an -7 ~l7.

Longvieiu, Wa6h.—NP Ticket Office, H53 Broadviat Winston-Saleln, N. C. 27lOl-—-l2OQ Reynolds BldgPhone 3~92l , Phone Park 3-l l3Z.

L05 Al\_8¢|¢8. COW-. 9O0l4—">l0 5 Main 5t. R00!“ 4'?‘ Yakima, Wash., 989Ol--NP Station. Phone ClencoiirtPacific Electric Bldg. Phone Madison 7-B2l_ 3.9i5]_

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