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This black and white photograph shows trailers from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company being prepared for a "circus loading". It is a term used to describe an older method of moving trailers on to flatcars (TOFC) whereby a truck backs the trailer up to a ramp placed at one end of a cut of cars. Circus loading requires bridge plates at each end of all cars to enable the trailer and tractor to pass from car to car.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1956 and 1958
Item Number: 227037
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #508.75
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227037
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Business and Industry - Railroad - Rolling stock - Intermodal
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Intermodal
Transportation - Trucks
Type of Material - Photographs
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