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--- qutlx1@a... wrote:
> More potential loads to model:1) Barber Greene
> produced asphalt and aggregate
> handling equipment in Aurora on the West Batavia
> branch. Several loads a day
> of their unique green colored equipment left on Q
> flats every day.Sometime
> I'll have to relate the unique manner in which hand
> signs had to be passed
> inside the one loading building.It was indeed unique
> and never came across it
> anywhere else.
> 2)New Idea was located in Plano,Il and they produced
> farm implements.Things
> like hay rakes,conditioners,etc as I remember.
> 3)Austin Western was located across McClure road
> from Eola yard. They
> produced road graders and cranes,etc.Many,many Q
> flats were loaded everday by
> them and pulled by the 4pm east yard job.Their
> equipment was primarily yellow
> or a deep red.Sometimes we'd pull loads for the army
> and export painted in
> various other colors.My great Grandfather worked
> there when he came off the
> boat.
> 4)Cat @ Montgomery opened in 1957 producing the d-4
> and other tread driven
> units.As the lines expanded Montgomery soon became
> the center for all (or
> most) rubber tired units.We often pulled 25 loads a
> night out of there.Quite
> a site when we ran short of time occassionaly and
> left the loads for the next
> day.We would end up going to Eola with 50 or more
> flats loaded w/Cats! Lets
> see 50 times $300,000 equals! Much of this was
> export business to the port of
> L.A. A real revenue gold mine.We did whatever Cat
> wanted done,no questions
> asked.About every 2 weeks we'd get a load of D-4's
> or D-6s out of Peoria to
> spot at the Montgomery plant where they would finish
> them out and then be
> shipped to destination.
> 5)Kewaunee Boiler shipped boilers on Q flats(see
> Mike Spoors books for
> photos).
> 6) Check your C&A Div timetables for #69/4.This was
> the "local" to the Quad
> cities and handled all the eastbound farm equipment
> from I.H.,Deere,etc. Its
> interesting to follow this trains history thru the
> timecard as its
> origin/destination point changed over the decades.
> GIVEN ALL THESE POTENTIAL LOADS ;WHEN OH WHEN IS A
> MFG. GOING TO PRODUCE A Q
> FLAT SO I CAN BY 25 OR SO OF THEM ?
> Leo
>
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