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At Union Pacific we have experts who know €A !1! the lumber shipping business. e_xperts are backed by Union Pacific's modern equipment and the finest diversified lumber shipping cars on ffiil- rails. Such as extra wide door-box cars and bulkhead flatcars that save time and money when loading plywood and wrapped or strapped lumber. Not only do we offer the finest service available, but we're planning ways to be even more helpful in the future, includ- fid these a I I. ing studies on new schedules, new pricing and new equipment needs.

We're the oeonle who people who yve re [ne wn unknot your knotty can help you problems. n S THE pictures on these pages Fl graphically demonstrate, the cargo shipment of lumber in bulk from Canadian and Pacific Northwest points to both East and West coasts of the U.S. is a remarkable link in the transportation chain that brings the products of Northern forests to the ultimate consumer.

It involves massive quantities of lumber carefully loaded upon ships and barges at ports that sometimes are little more than rural loading docks for shipment thousands of miles away to some of the biggest and most sophisticated ports in the world.

. It involves a sea voyage, with all the inherent risks and unexpected problems that that entails, in the charge of a highly skilled crew of sailors who have mastered the surprisingly involved skills of safely transporting an enormously heavy, bulkY cargo through every kind of weather you ever heard of, and then some.

It involves a huge committment of money by wholesalers and producers against risks that include, among other things, time, distance, changing markets, ever-fluctuating Prices, weather and the uncertainties of loading and unloading in times of labor strikes and unrest.

. It involves an area of transportation that retains, for many, a glamor and excitement not found in other forms of moving massive quantities of commodities to market. To anYone who has seen a fully loaded barge rising in a twenty foot ocean swell, miles off the coast and riding out a vicious storm as waves break again and again across her bulk, there is a fascination. Not the stuff of Capt. Horatio Hornblower, but possessing a subtle beauty of light, form and