The US Fish and Wildlife service has "fish Cars" to transport fish. There
is one on display in Spearfish SD. http://www.fws.gov/dcbooth/fishcars.html
I went thought it last fall,. based on some of the information there. They
would have ran on the Q ant some point but I never dug around to find out
it this is really true.
Will
On , Ted Lemen <hi_jeanx@yahoo.com> wrote:
> According to the equipment roster of the Monticello Railway Museum, the
> John G. Shedd operated ex-CE&I No. 304, the "Turkey Run", in fish
> transport service after modifications to accomodate crews on board from
> its original use as coach/baggage. Other cars that survived initially
> from the C&EI's 1946 "Whippoorwill" train set include coach No. 460 "Vigo
> Trail" which went into IC MOW service in 1961; Coach 462 "Vanderburg
> Trail also went to the IC in 1961, then to a railroad equipment company;
> 463 "Vermillion Trail" is a virtual vagabond with stints on the IC, Black
> Hills, OPE, LA amd renamed "Sierra Madre" according to the Wikipedia
> search for "Whippoorwill Train". Diner 505 "Shakamak Inn" went to the IC
> in 1962, then the Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center in Baton Rouge, and
> is now at the Monticello Railway Museum being restored to IC livery.
> When the fish tanks had been replaced in the Nautilus at Monticello and
> it was ready for visitors for the first time years ago, a member of the
> crew that had worked aboard the car on trips to the Gulf or elsewhere. He
> gladly answered questions about how they maintained the tanks on the
> road, smiled while visitors joked about him "not going hungry" if they
> got stuck somewhere and provided great enlightenment about life away from
> home gathering and caring for fish.
> I am not entirely certain if he was joking or not when he replied about
> what happened if something died in transit? Could you eat it? He said
> they never ate their captives, but once had a fish or some other large
> specimen that expired and they pitched it out the side door going through
> the country. Imagine some farmer plowing next to the tracks and finding a
> giant octopus lying in his field. Would probably make the weekly paper.
> As a youngster growing up near Chicago, I couldn't imagine why there were
> rudimentary railroad tracks crossing Lake Shore Drive near Soldier Field
> and the Field Museum of Natural History, climbing out of the bushes that
> shielded motorists from viewing the remnants of the IC freight yard and
> commuter coach tracks. After learning something about the Nautilus'
> operations from someone who worked on it, I suspect those long-gone rails
> that went out near the Aquarium had probably been a delivery route for
> fish.
> Most interesting is that the Monticello Railway Museum would wind up with
> two of the cars from this relatively obscure C&EI train through the most
> different of sources. Their website is mrym.org.
> To tie this message back to this group: Caboose CB&Q 14042 is the only
> piece of Q equipment on hand at Monticello. With its sliding door and a
> couple of seats, some referred to it as a "drover's caboose" used to
> accomodate riders who traveled with their livestock to market. Others
> suggest it was just used in branchline service where some freight and a
> few passengers handled that way eliminated the need for a coach of some
> sort. Maybe someone here will know.
> Second Tie-in: If it were not for a CB&Q fantrip from St. Louis to
> Hannibal in February 1966, however, the site now developed as the
> Monticello Railway Museum might still be a cornfield. The trip generated
> interest in preserving steam from those aboard who signed up as initial
> members to fight the imminent retirement of Burlington steam. After
> acquiring a tiny saddle tank steamer in October 1966, that, things really
> got out of hand and 45 years later, Monticello proves to be one of the
> really nice museums.
> Ted Lemen
>
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