Thanks!
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <jerstauf@e...>
To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations
> Kable Printing during those years as well as now, was heavy into catalog
> work for such customers as Aldens mail order which is now long gone. The
> mail was loaded directly into the cars from the finishing dept. via
> conveyors with a couple people in the car to stack the mail. Tracks 3 &
> 4 both indoor tracks held I believe 6 cars each. Track 3 is gone and
> track 4 recieves the bulk share if incoming paper for the Roto presses.
> Waste paper is the only outbound shipment from the plant these days and
> all of the mail goes by truck to chicago to be loaded on the various
> RR's. At one time we did our own piggy back loading but I do not recall
> the final year of operation. Hope this helps. Jerry
>
>
> Charlie Vlk wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Does anyone know what was published at Kable Printing? I know it was
the
> > source of loads for many of the 50' ex-troop kitchen cars and possibly
one
> > of the primary reasons the "Q" cars showed offline so much.
> > Charlie Vlk
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <WPDiven@a...>
> > To: <wleath@s...>; <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 1:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations
> >
> > > Greetings all:
> > >
> > > Previously posted in re mail/express movements and war-surplus troop
> > kitchen
> > > cars:
> > >
> > > "The cars were assigned based upon the contract. Was a jeep, that's Q
term
> > > for the former troop kitchen cars, adequate? A 60 foot car? As traffic
> > > demands oscillated, so did car assignments. ..." And: "... Another
> > nitpick:
> > > most large printing plants had (and still have) their own rail access,
> > often
> > > extending right into their buildings. Wouldn't it have been more
likely
> > that
> > > the magazine's cars were loaded right in the printing plant?"
> > >
> > > My $.02:
> > >
> > > Kable Printing in Mt. Morris, Illinois, had such an interior loading
> > > arrangement and from my recollections of the late 50s to late 60s used
the
> > > converted kitchen cars to the exclusion of other cars. I do recall a
> > > brand-new Chinese red plug-door box spotted nearby but never found out
> > what
> > > it was doing there. As far as the ex-kitchen cars being more suited
to
> > the
> > > job, I wonder if it had more to do with the quality of rail on the
branch
> > > from Oregon.
> > >
> > > As an aside, on one trip in the latter 60s the turn from Oregon
managed to
> > > damage the roll-up door protecting the track into Kable Printing. I
have
> > the
> > > teletype ordering crewmen to the inquiry in Oregon but don't know its
> > outcome.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Bill Diven
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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