Ted,

I would have to say just the opposite. Now just about every large business
has dumpsters scattered all around their property. Before the "Dumpster
Era" empty gons were the standard dumpster.

If there was an unusually heavy snowfall Inland Steel was in the habit
of filling gons with snow. Then they would reject them for loading and
order replacements from the various road haul roads.

While out of the scope of this Group I can recall one gon that had
another load placed on top of the previous load. The stars must have
been aligned correctly because it just happened to be loaded with
company material and I got involved in the issue and knew what the
previous load was and where it went. If the B&B Foreman had not
noticed it could have gone through many loading cycles just as it
was.

Russ