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>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
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
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> (641) 923-2573
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