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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] re: Ottumwa car seals
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:17:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Gerald
He might have been sealing the tool box on an engine
going to the back shop. I don't know, but the MOW
roadway equipment operators used to do that, on
machines that were moved, when they didn't go with
them.
John
--- Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Tks for comments.  Head-On Collision Tank Car line
> does indeed exist (or did 
> a few yrs ago) but are not in the "31 ORER & I
> believe they are a post-WWII 
> company. (Business did not have that sense of humour
> in the 30's!).   But 
> the Chicago River & Indiana makes sense as the
> script writing of the 
> agent(s) at times is open to interpretation - I
> checked the car # to the 
> Register & it fits so one mystery solved.  Harbor
> Tank Line was a 
> possibility too but like the comment made, unlikely
> to transpose twice on 
> different dates.  Maybe was a mark begun in "32.
> Some may have been 
> shortlived during the Depression,  As for the Banana
> Messenger - what I 
> couldn't figure out was why he needed a seal - would
> assume he would carry 
> those of his employer (United Fruit Co or whomever).
>  As you said, they had 
> to frequently ck the bananas. Any thoughts on the
> engineer for locomotive 
> seal usage?
> 
> 
> 
> Gerald A. Edgar
> 
> 230 W. 5th St.
> Garner, IA 50438-1404
> 
> (641) 923-2573
> 
>
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