(Northern Ontario Business published the following story on its website on August 20.)
SUDBURY, Ont. — Newsprint makers and printers are hailing the latest Canadian Pacific Railway fleet of 625 high-capacity boxcars for paper rolls. CPR designed the new paper carrier cars in collaboration with Bowater’s Thunder Bay mill. Together both companies experimented with loading and unloading techniques to develop efficient service. The Thunder Bay mill also provided advice and inspection on the first set of completed cars.
The new boxcars offer 25 per cent more capacity than that of the 800 older paper boxcars, which have now been eliminated. The new line was designed to specifically handle newsprint with damage-free handling and high-load capacity.
“We have built a car that has the features shippers and receivers said are most important to them,” Jim Buggs, CPR?s general manager, car manager says.
The new fleet has 200,000-plus pound capacity with less wasted space. CPR officials state it is the only car on the market that can load 50-inch newsprint rolls to the car’s full payload capacity.