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From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:48:58 -0500
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This ends the book, Jan "64 thru Dec "67.

27 foreign roads with 42 cars.  SOU with 5 including toilet paper to 
Chariton & furniture); GN (lbr & corn), IC (1 with mattresses to Des 
Moines), B&O (machinery) and SP q with wallboard from Dodson, MO) - 3 ea; 
and 2 ea from NP (1 sealed on 3 consecutive days!), C&NW (copper and a 
partially loaded car of washing machines pulled by the local by mistake) & 
UP (1 with wheat loaded on MKT).  One ea from C&O, PRR (bagged feed to 
Cambria, IA), T&P, MP (paper), CP, KCS (signal matl to Batavia, IA), NYC 
(beans from Osceola), AT&SF, P&LE
(washers from Philco @ Fairfield to Savannah, GA), SAL, C&EI, D&H, SOO 
(corn), RDG (mdse), GTW and GM&O.  Plus one very odd one!
A NH box loaded @ Galesburg with bagged sand for company use - why use a 
foreign road box for company sand???  Also the last several years mentioned 
Philco washers coming from Fairfield - I didn't know Philco ever made 
laundry equipment, thought it was just radios/TV's.

Private & RR subsidiaries numbered 19 with 55 cars.  SLRX (Bud) again led 
with 28 but several are listed as beer being iced.  There were 3 ea from 
RBNX (Div. of FGE carrying Pabst), FGE and BUDX (Div. of ART).  There were 2 
ea from WFE (1 with barrels), RBBX and DSD now owned by Pullman but still 
carrying Schlitz.  One ea from SFRE, URTX, BREX, PFE, NPM, RBWX (WFE mark 
carrying canned goods), MNX (National), PSPX (Phillips Petroleum with LP 
gas), ART and MWEX (URTX "LO" class car).  A PRR trailer on a TTX flat was 
also sealed.

The Q had 14 frt cars including an RBBQ off the St. Joe Div (only time agt 
remarked origin by Q div rather than station), 30046 with Co. Matls from 
Creston, 26557 with Co. Mdse going to Ottumwa storehouse, 19658 with car 
heaters from Fairfield (was winter and a lot of heaters installed or 
serviced @ Ottumwa), 63052 with co. matls, 36067 with lumber from Sutherland 
Lbr of Ottumwa,  25593, a 40' wood box with hides from K.C. and one 
Burlington trailer - BT8468 carried on a TTX & rsealed by Q Special Agt 
Campbell.

Thus ends one book from Dec 1931 thru Dec. 1967.  With a dozen blank pages 
left, the agt apparently decided it was time to retire a 37 year old book 
and begin anew.

Getting back to that New Haven box carrying bagged CB&Q sand - an extra 
mystery as unlike other company matl's carried in Q revenue cars, the Q  had 
MoW box cars assigned to bagged sand service (and hoppers for bulk) so again 
why a foreign road?  In any case, its now proven to be prototypical to park 
a NH box on a CB&Q loco servicing track!

Gerald Edgar

(641) 923-2573

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