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Subject: [BRHSlist] re: shipping in barrels/sacks
From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:37:18 -0500
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JUst thought of something still shipped in sacks along with smithing coal - 
rail anchors!  (and of course spikes still in small metal cans) - inasmuch 
as both are for RR's only I've seen them leave foundrys in large wooden open 
top crates.  As for barrels, for yrs (still today?) Hiram Walker cut & cured 
staves for whiskey barrels at facility on SE side of Prairie du Chien for 
eventual shipment as whiskey barrels to distillery in Peoria.  I know these 
went out by rail, at least into early 60's as saw a plant truck transloading 
them into Q box car on team track downtown.  Do not recall type of box car 
but this would have been a 'barrel' car in the good old days & perhaps then 
a 40' hi-cube (or ugly duckling as Athearn named them when they came out 
with a model).  The 40' Q hi-cubes showed up on C&NW (ex-CGW) industrial 
park trackage in Dubuque, coming off the Q, in the 60's & 70's.  Never did 
ck exactly what the loads were.


Gerald A. Edgar

230 W. 5th St.
Garner, IA 50438-1404

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