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The southern paper mills were basically of two types (1) Kraft paper mills - producing normally unbleached industrial papers and boards, for uses in corrugated boxes, cement bags and other bulk materials, and connsumer bags such as grocery bags, etc. (2) consumer papers mills -- producing lighter weight bleached business papers and newsprint. <br /> In the 40's kraft paper mills would have received their raw material, pine logs in short 5 - 6 foot lengths (called billets), the billets would have been brought into the mill on trucks or rail cars - the railcars (pulpwood cars) would be flat cars with low (6 to 8') end bulkheads, the billets would be 4 - 5' long and loaded 2 across the car. The two stacks of billets were not interlaced so they could be more easly unloaded with mechanically equipment. Other materials used in the paper manufacturing could be brought in using box cars, for bagged materials, tank cars for liguid or gas additives. <br />The finished products would be loaded into "clean" box cars, with the rolls stacked on end inside the cars.
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