Ne* Plywood-Steel Freight Cars

America's most tnodern freight box cars tailed by a streamlined westwarcl in June over the Great Willmar, l\Iinn., ,to Puget Sound.

train, 106 plyr'vood-stecl plyrvood caboose, rolled Northern Railway from proof binder, sft-inch sheets are 4 x 10 feet bottom of car to top. are 'covered by thin thick and are placed vertically. The in.size and extend in one piece from The vertical joints between panels metal strips and bolted through to

'Ihe train's shining cars had jttst come off the assemly line of the company's shops at St. Cloud, Minn., the first of 100O units under construction.

Six of these 4o-foot standard box cars daily roll out of the shops ancl this rate of production rvill continue urltil the present order has been completed, sa1's F. J. Gavirr. president of the road.

On the outside of the.cars, panels of Douglas fir plyrvood are exterior type, made with permanently water-

Appointed Scrles Mcrncrger

C. L. Jimerson is now with the Mt. Whitney Lumber Co. as sales manager with headquarters at the company's mill in Johnsondale, Calif.

Ife was sales manager for the Algoma I.,umber Co. at Algoma, Ore., for many years, and recently assistant to Leo Hennessy in the CPA at Portland.

lumber studding. At horizontal points panels are riveted through to lumber stiffeners.

Plywood and steel are combined to form the doors.

The cars are also lined with large panels, on the sidewalls the panels, installed horizontally, are S/s-inch thick while on the ceiling thinner S/lGinch panels are used.

"Tests of the experimental plywood-steel freight cars indicate they are as sturdy as the conventional box cars," says President Gavin, in commenting on the 2-ton reduction in weight.

Tclks to Lumber Users

Hardy M. Ray, field officer, Lumber and Lumber Products Division, War Production Board, explained the new lumber control order L-335 to Southern California.manufacturers, contractors, railroad, mining and oil industry men at a meeting held at the Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles, on Monday, July 24.