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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] car seal usage Ottumwa "31-67
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT)
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I swear, I'm not making this up! I believe, HCTX is
Headon Collision Tank Car Line. I didn't look it up in
the ORER(I'm away from them, right now), but if memory
serves..... Maybe some one can look it up quickly.
John
--- PSHedgpeth@aol.com wrote:
> Couple of off the top thoughts re seals.
> 
> CRL...could it be CRI  (Chicago River and
> Indiana)...one of the roads that 
> served the Chicago Stock Yards.
> 
> I'd be 97.3% sure that No. 62 was Train 62....Only
> place that I'm aware of 
> that sequential files were maintained for wrecks was
> in the Freight Claims 
> Dept..on the RI they were a 5 digit number I
> think..which incorporated the 
> year....Local reference would always be to whatever
> the train was called locally.
> 
> HCTX...I've seen this reporting mark, but can't
> bring it up...seems like it 
> was a tank car line..I may wake up some night and
> have it...if so I'll post it.
> 
> Most everyone is perhaps familiar with banana
> messengers...these were guys 
> who actually traveled with the reefers of
> bananas...Bananas are extremely 
> sensitive to temperature changes..they also generate
> considerable quantities of heat 
> as they ripen...Consequently it was necessary to
> check the internal condition 
> and temperature of the bananas frequently,  The
> messenger could then order 
> the vents closed or open, heat or ice as the case
> required.
> 
> I only saw one banana messenger during my long and
> sordid railroad career...I 
> was working the Ravenna (NE) switch engine (11p-7a)
> summer 1956....We had one 
> of the mainline WB freights in  79 or 75...I was
> walking up the yard and 
> spied a decrepit figure carrying a smoked up barn
> lantern creeping through the 
> yard...I asked one of the other trainmen who that
> was...reply..That's the banana 
> messenger...They were not from the upper levels of
> society.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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