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This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company intermodal transportation services. The description for this photograph called this type of loading of trailers "circus loading." It is a term used to describe an older method of loading highway trailers on flatcars (TOFC), whereby a tractor 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 1950 and 1985
Item Number: 50199
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #508.117
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 50199
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Business and Industry - Trucking and freighting
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Date - 1970s
Date - 1980s - 1980
Date - 1980s - 1981
Date - 1980s - 1982
Date - 1980s - 1983
Date - 1980s - 1984
Date - 1980s - 1985
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Transportation - Intermodal
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Transportation - Trucks
Type of Material - Photographs
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