Sea-Land Twin Stack Double Stack Train Service 1985

Description

Sea-Land and Southern Pacific Railroad began double stack container car service in 1981 with SPRR cars built by ACF with loads moving from Los Angeles to Houston, Barbours Cut and New Orleans and empty containers returning to Oakland. In 1985 Sea-Land bought its own Twin Stack cars and began double stack container car service from Tacoma and Los Angeles to Chicago and Little Ferry, NJ. This video tracks containers as they move from Yokohama, Japan in S/L's Mariner vessel to Tacoma where they are transferred to Twin Stack trains for movement over the BN to Chicago in 64 hours with continuing 2 day serve to Little Ferry, NY via the NS, D&H and NYSW.
Eastern routing over NS to Buffalo, D&H to Binghamton and NYSW to New Jersey results from Conrail Chief Engineer stating that he will not allow double stack container cars on Conrail. Sea-Land officers in the video include Bob Ingram, Gordon Fuller, Mike Collins and Brett Mehlhoff.