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From: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:05:29 -0500
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Gerald,

Wasn't there a toy company in Dubuque. Gamble Skogmo or something
like that?

Russ
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From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, 27 September, 2003 09:37
Subject: [BRHSlist] re: shipping in barrels/sacks


> 
> 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
> 
> (641) 923-2573
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