CF Transporting Trade Center Materials For Memorial

Consolidated Freightways is providing a tractor-trailer to transport steel from the World Trade Center Towers across the country to be made into a Sept. 11 memorial.

Sixteen tons of steel from the New York City buildings destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, plus a FDNY fire truck damaged in the collapse and parts of the damaged Pentagon, will be trucked across country beginning in New York City June 24 and arriving in Southern California on July 4.
The World Trade Center steel will be re-fabricated into the superstructure for a Sept. 11 memorial called Freedom's Flame, a gift from California to New York. A duplicate Freedom's Flame memorial is to be built and located in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The project is a cooperative effort of fire and police organizations across the country, aided by corporate sponsors such as Consolidated Freightways.
Accompanying the trucks will be law-enforcement and firefighting personnel, the designer, sculptor, truck drivers, various media members, and advance team members.
Fabrication of the two 37-foot-tall memorials will take approximately three years and cost nearly $9 million. Each memorial will have 30 7-foot figures ascending and descending a staircase that wraps around a giant stainless steel flame. The flame and its base form a sundial that portrays each tragic event of Sept. 11.
For more information, visit www.freedomsflame.us.