David:
HW in peoria brings back fond memories. While attending Bradley,
during the summer I would work for the CRIP. Set many a box car at
the Hiram Walker plant.
Dont ever remember the Q switching there - doesnt mean they didnt
though.
RJ Murchison
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "David Jordan" <dpj1974@i...> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Hiram Walker & Sons vacated their Peoria distillery in late 1981
after
> selling it to Archer Daniels Midland. I was curious if the Q
handled this
> traffic to Peoria from the the facility in Prairie du Chien. These
carloads
> of cut & cured staves first went to the cooperage facility at 2400
SW
> Washington St. (now Caterpillar's Rubber Processing Facility).
Finished
> barrels were loaded into boxcars, switched out then delivered to
the Peoria
> & Pekin Union's 90 Yard. P&PU then delivered them (only several
blocks
> away!) to the distillery's bottling plant warehouse. This cooperage
plant in
> Peoria closed in 1972.
>
> David P. Jordan
> Peoria, Illinois
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