Re: Steel Banding for Rough Cut lumber Loads


Tony Thompson
 


Bryian Sones wrote:

Does anyone know when steel banding started being used to bundle lumber for transport on rails?
Also, does anyone have any Pics of early steel banding on flatcars they could possibly share?

Late 1950s. I have SP photos of experiments at a lumber mill but they are from 1963.

Tony Thompson

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