Maybe the special equipment was for gas masks; hide loads were notorious
stinkers. Cars assigned to hide service could be used for almost nothing
else because of their smell.
Some years ago when I was working in the traffic department of Zenith
Electronics we had an incident where one of our trucking fleet dispatchers
accepted a hide load and had it loaded into a brand new trailer. The load
arrived at our plant in Springfield MO and was staged for delivery, but that
was a few days off so the trailer just sat in the yard under the July sun.
After a couple of days one of out hostlers reported a trailer leaking "green
odorous foam" from under the door! Needless to say the brown stuff hit the
rotary air mover over this, the dispatcher was almost fired because the
trailer now had a built in stench that nothing, including a bath of chlorine
bleach would rid it of.
Thank you kindly,
Mike M.
Downers Grove, IL
-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Mark
Heiden
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:00 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Special equipment for cars in hide service
Hello everyone,
I've been collecting information on some 50ft boxcars in hide service
that I'm planning to model using Proto 2000 kits. The cars in
question are:
CBQ 21154, 21235, 21378, 22371 (50ft AAR single door boxcar)
CBQ 48506, 48593 (50ft AAR double door boxcar with end door)
In the Official Railway Equipment Register these cars are listed as
type XP, specially equiped to handle a specific commodity. Would sort
of special equipment would a hide car have? I was under the
impression that hides were either shipped in barrels or crates, or
were just piled loose in the car (the more I think about a car full of
loose hides the more I hope it never happened!).
Thanks,
Mark Heiden
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