Related question. How was the cream/milk kept refrigerated to avoid
spoiling? The baggage rooms in summer were quite hot, as would the
baggage cars.
Mike Cafferata
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote:
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> Bob
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> This would be the waybill for the free return of an empty cream
can.\
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> Cream was shipped from the farm via the local depot and moved as
baggage on passenger or mixed trains?to the creamery in whatever was
the nearest city having such operation.
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> The freight was paid by the creamery at destination and the can
was returned free to the farmer via reverse route.
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> Find a photo of a small town depot from the early 1900's to the
late 1950's and usually you see a number of cans sitting in front of
the depot on the ground or on baggage trucks waiting to be loaded
out on the next train.
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> The waybills were usually attached by a twisted wire through the
handle of the can and through a reinforced hole in the waybill.? The
cans usually had the creamery name painted on them.
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> Pete
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Chaparro <thecitrusbelt@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 8:50 pm
> Subject: [CBQ] Empty Can Waybill
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> I came across a CB&Q Form 825 titled "Empty Can Waybill". What I
have
> is the 3-inch top portion of a 4-inch wide form.
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> The form has pre-printed lines for 5, 8 and 10 gallon cans. It has
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> blank fourth line and a fifth line for the total amount of cans.
My
> example was marked for just one 5 gallon can from Swift & Company
to an
> illegible consignee. Te form was dated 5-18-1954.
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> Can anyone tell me more about the use of this form?
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> Thanks.
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> Bob Chaparro
> Hemet, CA
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