Originally published at: From Boxcars to a Billion-Dollar Network - FreightWaves
In 1966, ■■■■■■■■ Pacific Railway had a problem. Empty boxcars were piling up in Eastern Canada with no payload for the return trip west. The solution was a small freight company called Fastfrate, created specifically to fill those cars with less-than-truckload shipments bound for Western Canada. Six decades later, that single-service operation has become one…