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Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: shipping in barrels/sacks
From: "Rory Murchison" <qhogger@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:35:32 -0000
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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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