Russ,
Was there a icing dock at Pacific Junction? Was there another dock
that would have been used.
Most of the larger packing houses had there own meat reefers. What
type of cars were used for the small indepent packing co. use? Did
PFE and BREX have special cars used for meat reefers?
In the archives I read a message that there was a daily east bound
meat train from South Omaha. was this train routed through Council
Bluffs or through Plattsmouth? was it a thru train or did it service
the packing houses at Glenwood or Bedford?
Thanks,
George
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@e...> wrote:
> Lenny,
>
> Packing plant at Glenwood IA was called "Glenwood Packing".
>
> There was also Missouri Beef Packers at Phelps MO. Plant is still
> there but is now Iowa Beef Packers owned.
>
> Meat cars were cleaned at Pacific Jct. Cars that had been loaded
> with hanging meat were usually rather messy inside with lots of fat
> and so forth on the floor. Really stank in the warmer weather.
> Generally the hooks were just thrown back in the car without even
> being hosed off. Some cars would come back with no hooks at all
> and some others with twice as many as needed.
>
> After the cleaning process almost all meat cars would be pre-iced
> before loading. No packer would put hanging meat in a car that
> had not already been cooled down. This required a close
> coordination in scheduling so that only the correct number of cars
> for a days projected loading would be pre-iced and moved up to
> Omaha.
>
> The PFE meat car fleet was not that large so at times MNX cars
> would be loaded at Schuyler or Lexington. I do not know if BREX
> or PFE would pre-ice these cars.
>
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Ohrnell" <wohrnell@s...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 08 December, 2002 17:27
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] SW Iowa Packing Plants
>
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > There was a packing plant in Glenwood, Iowa. It was later changed
to a
> > Kosher plant. I do not remember the company name.
> >
> > Lenny
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