This is a list of freight cars and their contents bound for the Ford Motor Company assembly and stamping plants in Buffalo NY by the Wabash Railroad route through southwsetern Ontario in the month of June 1954. They came from a book of customs documnets kept by the Wabash at their Black Rock NY yard. Bob Bowes posted the info in the "wabashrailroadhistoricalsoc" List on YahooGroups between March and May of 2003.

A majority of the cars came from Ford's Rouge plant in Dearborn MI. The shipping route "DTI OJ WAB" indicates they were transferred four miles south from Rouge by the DT&I ("DTI") and dropped in the Wabash interchange yard at Oakwood Junction ("OJ"). The Wabash ("WAB") forwarded the cars to Boat Yard on the Detroit waterfront where they were transferred by carferry across the Detroit River to Canadian National's waterfront yard in Windsor ON. Wabash trains ran on CN trackage rights from Windsor through St. Thomas to Fort Erie ON. They crossed the Niagara River and terminated at their yard at Black Rock (Buffalo) NY.

This page is a day-by-day list of cars and loads that were recieved at Black Rock. I'll post analysis of this data later.
Thank you for making this info available, Bob!