We've come a long way since those days. Today you
never hear of milk going bad, before, during, or
after. I just bought 4 gallons of skim milk that are
good thru 12/6 store date. Back then you couldn't
trust it for a few hours. And they call them the
"Good Old Days". cy
--- "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...> wrote:
> 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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