In case of cream, they didn't try to keep it cool,
most of the time. The cream that came long distances,
in the summer, was used for "sour cream " butter as
opposed to "sweet cream" butter. At times, the milk
and cream cans were set on the "fish rack" and covered
with ice and sometimes covered with "horse blankets".
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- cy svobodny <ctsvobodny@y...> wrote:
> 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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