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Subject: [CBQ] Bricks
From: jsteamernubes@aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:25:04 EST
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        Used bricks, called Chicago Common, were and maybe still are a 
commodity that is regularly shipped from Chicago to Texas by rail.  There was a 
tariff for shipping Chicago Common.  When I worked at the C&NW, a dump truck 
would 
unload bricks along the team tracks.  Laborers would descend on the bricks, 
chip off the old mortar, and then load them into a boxcar for movement to 
Texas.  They went out of Chicago on North Western's St. Louis line.  I never 
heard 
about shipping them via barge, but I suppose it may have been done.
       I was told Texas architects liked to use the brick in new construction 
because of its aged, weathered appearance.    
       Nubes


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