In the late sixties I went over to the stock pens at Clyde Yard (Cicero) to
measure and photograph the SM-16 stockcars.
Yes, the aroma was rather pungent, even cars that had been "cleaned". I
don't know this for a fact, but I imagine the urban stock pens had their
manure piles loaded into open gons and taken to places like Mongomery, IL
where the Q had stock pens and enough real estate to have large manure
piles. I don't know what they would do with the manure if and when the
piles got so large they couldn't handle any more, but knowing that farmers
value manure I wouldn't be surprised that the Q, as frugal as it was, would
charge to have the farmers haul it away! I wonder if the former Mongomery
stockpen is an EPA Superfund Site with the hundred plus years of
accumulation of cow, sheep and pig manure?
Charlie
----- Original Message -----
From: "B.J. de Vries" <ben1.vries@p...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Enlightment please
> Dear listers,
> Having no railroad background whatsoever I am faced with questions that
may be common knowledge to most of you such as
> - did the rear markers on the steel waycars (and pass. cars
> as wel) show a constant or a blinking red light and was
> their use mandatory (some photo's seem to contradict
> this)
> - when stockcar/trains were cleaned out, was there a
> special place to dump the straw/manure mix? (that must
> have been stinking!)
> Ben de Vries, Holland
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