LEO,
Berwyn got lots of mail! Even as a kid, I was impressed that during the
Christmas holidays, our mailman made 2 trips a day to our home, on 33rd and
East Ave. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I called my brother,
and he thinks we even an a delivery after 6PM on some days, that makes for a
3rd. delivery. So you see, Berwyn is WAS big town. And to have a siding
showed the world how important we were, not every site had a siding.
I remember the siding and the REA trucks parked next to the box car. As a
teenager, I worked at a gas station on East Ave. and the Q main line that
had the maintenance contract for REA. I never took photos.
Ray Bedard
San Jose CA
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Subject: [BRHSlist] Mail & express
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:56:28 EDT
Russ Repetto used to tell stories (lots of them) but these were about
picking
up a "jeep" full of Pepperidge Farm bread off the backtrack at Downers on
the
last east bound dinkie.Does anybody have info on where the bread was
headed?
Ed Metz used to also tell lots of stories. One of his was about setting out
a
car of storage mail on the stub trk at Berwyn each morning on the first
west
bound dinkie.
How much mail could Berwyn get?
And of course we all know about the infamous "wheel car" that operated on
the
last dinkie hauling wheels from Aurora to the wheel bay at 14th st. The
crew
received wayfreight pay instead of passenger rate for dragging that car
around.
I was wondering if anyone knows which trains hauled the REA cars from Chgo
to
the Aurora REA building?
What job hauled the "jeeps" from Kable Bros that the Oregon Turn brought to
Aurora?
Leo
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