[CBQ] Re: Special equipment for cars in hide service

["Mark Heiden" <mark_heiden@hotmail.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <mmatalis@s...> wrote:
>
> Maybe the special equipment was for gas masks; hide loads were 
notorious
> stinkers.  Cars assigned to hide service could be used for almost 
nothing
> else because of their smell.

Hi Mike,

It wasn't so much the smell, but what was making the smell.  I can't 
imagine what the interior of a hide service car, especially one lined 
with wood, would soak up.  I believe there was an AAR prohibition 
against using hide cars for any other lading, even rough freight, 
unless the interior was replaced.

Thanks,
Mark Heiden





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