[CBQ] Thread From Way Back - Shipping Remains

["Ted Lemen" <hi_jeanx@yahoo.com>]

A couple of months ago there was a question about shipping human remains and 
scores of responses were posted. I usually wouldn't post non-Burlington 
pictures on this site, but the discussion had evolved into a general topic on 
these shipping procedures.  Since the Monticello Railway Museum was founded on 
a CB&Q fantrip behind the 4960, some shots of the shipping container it 
displays seemed appropriate.  The remains of Roy W. Hamm, the first citizen of 
Monticello to be killed in WWI, were shpped home in it. The photos are in album 
Human Remains.  His family retained it after his funeral in town in 1921, 
although he had been killed in 1918, less than a year before the war ended, and 
had originally been buried in France.  Donated to the Piatt County Historical 
Society, it is on loan to the museum.

The pictures I took at the museum Saturday include the longer write-up of what 
I've capsulized above, a picture of the flower-draped box on the platform of 
the Illinois Central depot, the metal-handled dark wooden box on the floor in a 
museum display car and a close-up of the metal strip embossed with Hamm's name, 
number and other important information.  Hope these visuals make somebody's 
model the more realistic.

Ted Lemen



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