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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] re: shipping in barrels/sacks
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
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I remember when spikes used to come in wooden kegs. I
wish I would have kept a few, but I thought they would
always be around! I think track bolts came in kegs
too, but I know spikes did.
John
--- Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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