016 - Container Wagon No. 1 – logistical
Contract: China Shipping Have you never been tempted by the thought? You’re waiting for your connection as a goods train approaches, slowing almost to a halt as it rumbles into the station. The container wagons roll past you. Some of the flat-beds are unoccupied, their platforms tantalisingly close. Aat dii eenhaafaal joppr.[1] In the USA it’s known as ‘rail-hopping’. An entire itinerant lifestyle grew up around it in the depression era, riding for free across the great open
