This milk or cream most likely was going to a cheese factory.......... so if
it sours more for the better.
Myron
----- Original Message -----
From: "cy svobodny" <ctsvobodny@y...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>; <brhslist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Milk Chptr 3
> 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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