RE: (erielack) EL's Port Newark operations?

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>]

> This obscure operation defies all logic, and must have been a 
> short-lived trial by the PA. Does the book state what year 
> this took place?

Whoops, forgot to mention that: 1966.


> My 1975 PA map does not show any carfloat 
> terminals on Newark Bay. I doubt the operation involved 
> TOFC/COFC, as it would have been cheaper to dray boxes from 
> Croxton, so perhaps it took place in the early-mid 60's, 
> before containerization displaced conventional movement. 

Possibly, but the book showed a Sea-Land ship with containers...?

	- Paul


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