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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Hide Cars
From: "Mark Heiden" <mark_heiden@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:48:36 -0000
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Hi Denny,

Those must have been some memorable summers!  How big would a hide 
be?  I realize this would vary according to animal, but would a hide 
be removed in one piece or cut into parts as needed?  Could one 
person move a hide, or would this be a team effort?  Lastly, how 
high could you pile these things?  I imagine that at some point the 
hides would be so deep that no one would go into the boxcar to add 
more.

Thanks,
Mark Heiden

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Denny Anspach <danspach@m...> wrote:
>
> On most railroads hide cars were commonly wood sheathed cars near 
the 
> ends of their lives. In my experience green hides were most 
commonly 
> piled in loose interleaved with layers of salt to keep the hides 
from 
> spoiling.  As you might expect, the hides made the cars unsuitable 
> for other uses, and the salt did nothing good for the car 
structure 
> (hence the preference for wood cars).
> 
>   On the cars I have been familiar with, none seemed to have any 
other 
> special attributes or appliances beyond "For Hide Service Only".
> 
> I spent summers years ago working in an Iowa meat packing plant, 
and 
> as the "lowest of the low", I often inherited the job of working 
in 
> and around these cars (in this case RI single sheathed beaters).
> 
> This subject has been discussed extensively on the Steam Era 
Freight 
> Car List several times, I believe most recently in about 2003.  If 
I 
> recall correctly, even some retired wood ice reefers were 
> occasionally drafted into hide (or salt) service at the ends of 
their 
> lives.
> 
> Denny
> -- 
> Denny S. Anspach, MD
> Sacramento, California
>






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