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Technically a lot of beer "moves" in unit trains. Both Coors and Miller ship beer via intermodal. Although its not a full intermodal train of beer, the loads of beer still do move in a unit train w/ other intermodal loads. Coors uses intermodal from Golden to Virginia. One of the funkiest beer moves I've seen is an annual thing for Miller from their Fort Worth brewery to Milwaukee - yes - to Milwaukee - the home of beer. Reason being, Fort Worth produces plastic bottled beer. Miller at Milwaukee does not. Every summer there is a huge music festival at Milwaukee called Summer Fest (I love the clever name) and Miller is a big sponsor and a big supplier of beer - in plastic bottles for safety sake - brewed in Fort Worth, instead of 2 miles away at the Milwaukee plant. <br /> <br />Two tricks with beer in intermodal - its heavy so you can't fill up a 53' trailer - only about 32' of beer maxes out your weight, so you've got to block and brace the pallets so they don't dump all over when lifted onto the train or during trucking. Also - as you'd expect, given the relatively low % alcohol, beer also does freeze. A moving truck or train provides enough "jiggle factor" that you can transport it at below freezing temps, so long as you keep it moving. If you stop for very long - BEER-CICLES. ... and those haven't caught on just yet - so you get to buy the load.
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