same question I asked once before(did not see an
answer) How did the milk keep from going sour? Or did
the doodlebug have a reffer unit in the baggage compt?
hx1@a...
wrote:
> In 1920's there was job working Serena(on Fox River
> Branch) to Sheridan
> Jct-Paw Paw-Shabbona-PawPaw-Sterling in the evening
> and then Sterling-Paw
> Paw-Shabbona-PawPaw-Sheridan Jct-Serena the next
> morning. These were daily
> operations. Timetable 22 dated 10/31/20 for the C&A
> Divs. show train 40/41
> between Serena and Sheridan Jct. The train then is
> shown as 40/39 between
> Sheridan Jct and Paw Paw -Shabbona.Then as train
> 41/42 between Shabbona and
> Sterling.
>
> What does all this have to do with Milk? These
> trains were motor cars and in
> the case of SHeridan Jct to Paw Paw to Shabbona the
> only scheduled trains. So
> they carried whatever needed to be carried.
> In 1926 the BRT was asking for the assignment of a
> brkmn to the job so a
> "check of business" was conducted by a rep for the
> BRT,ORC,the express
> company and the Q mgmt.(all signed it). Here are
> just some of the findings
> "baggage includes packages of newspapers and milk
> cans on 40/41 and 42.
> rather than show the full detailed list I'll just
> say that at Shabbona on #40
> inbound on the evening of 7/19/26 47 pieces of
> "baggage" were placed on board
> and 8 unloaded.Also 12 passengers boarded and 5
> detrained. #41 then
> distributed "baggage" at each stop between Shabbona
> and Sterling. Next
> morning #42 picked up "baggage between Sterling and
> PawPaw unloading 27
> pieces at Shabbona along with 15 passengers. They
> loaded no passengers but 25
> pieces of "baggage" for #39 to PawPaw and Sheridan
> Jct.
>
> So it would seem that this crew handled milk to
> Shabbona in the evening on
> #40 and then again on #42 the next morning.All to
> connect to the "milk train"
> on the C&I. and the mty cans coming back on the
> evening run to Sterling and
> morning move back home to Serena. Or was the milk
> going to a dairy at
> Sterling?
> By the way express carried on these trains was
> detailed as full and empty
> baskets of bread !
>
> Leo
> P.S. What I read in the file correspondence leads me
> to think this crew made
> the round trip every day laying over in Sterling
> just under 8 hrs and then
> having less than 8 hrs at home in Serena before
> starting out again.There is
> comment about only getting legal rest on Sunday when
> the job didnt work.
>
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