While at the Galesburg Convention this fall. Be sure and go to the Packing
House Resturant in Galesburg. The last time I was there the front door
shows how the horse drawn(later motor driven) trucks would load. Inside a
lot of the cooling coils were still in the ceiling as were the meat rails.
Meat was sold by the side and the local butcher did the work. Now it is
most boxed.
Outside you use to be able to see the doors and were the tracks use to run
thru the buildings.
sjh
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From: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: [CBQ] re: packing plants
> Remember when running those meat reefers, they originated @ packing
> plants but ended up on team tracks & at cold storage whses and in a
> few cases, large on-line grocers/butcher shops. JOhn Morrell, and I
> am sure others, took older iced reefers and converted to mechanical
> by cutting out part of the end to install the A/C unit (have slides
> of some in Sioux Falls). ANd of course meat reefers of all brands,
> not just on-line on the CB&Q could end up on Burlington rails. Gerald
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