Did it one summer at Richards-Wilcox in Aurora. The lumber was loaded and
unloaded by the piece and was quite a mess to unload till you got down a
system. The slack action would mix the lengths and sizes up as it was not
banded together in bundles like today. The reason some cars had a small end
door was for the longer lengths.
Also the reason some stock cars had end doors. Not for the drover as some
people think. Stock cars could be used for lumber and coal and in a real
pinch coopered and used for grain. For a while corn cobs were also moved
for use in blasting electrical motors
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: <rgortowski@aol.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Oregon, IL circa "62
> In a message dated 3/12/2004 7:44:03 PM Central Standard Time,
> vje68@hotmail.com writes:
> Principal commodities shipped are silica sand, milk products, pianos*,
> agricultural implements and tank truck equipment. Principal shippers are:
Manley
> Sand Co., Carnation Milk & the E.D. Erngre Co.
>
> That's the E.D. Etnyre Company - the place where I work! The plant site
is
> now east of the river about a half-mile from the truss bridge. When the
plant
> was on the west side of the river, the Q would come down the "Carnation"
> branch and would load or unload cars in the street! (see the map and
picture in the
> last Zephyr in the Oregon feature) I am told during the 1960's the
company
> would run equipment up to Mt. Morris to use their loading docks.
>
> The old piano factory - now Conover Square, has had some trouble filling
and
> keeping all the shops occupied. Not a bad little place and there is a
railroad
> club that is working on a layout there. One of the guys I worked with
> remembers unload lumber out of a box car for the lumber store that used to
be next
> to the piano factory. I can imagine that unloading a full box car of
lumber
> through a center door couldn't have been much fun!
>
> Rich Gortowski
>
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