The double stack container car: a rail revolution, the greatest revolution in transportation since the container ship. Twenty years ago the containership revolutionized sea transportation and now the double stack container car is revolutionizing land transportation.
The BN converted a boxcar yard at the Port of Seattle into a double stack container car train facility (Seattle International Gateway) providing fast efficient movement of containers off vessels onto Twin Stack double stack container trains destined for Chicago and New York. The BN trains provide 3-day service to Chicago and 6-day service to New York. Transit to New York is one third of the time it takes for all water through the Panama Canal.
As a result the traffic at Puget Sound Ports has surged and employment at Gunderson, the Twin Stack manufacturer in Portland, Oregon has been rebirth after the early 1980’s freight car recession. Narrated by Glenn Farley K5TV Seattle. Testimonials by Murray Watson BN, Fred Nolan Freight Shipping Consultant, Jim Smith Locomotive Engineer BN, Cliff Echols Production Supervisor Gunderson, Steve Peterson Welder Gunderson.
Narrative by Glenn Farley K5TV. TempoIV TV Monitoring service, Kirkland, WA
