Quick and easy answer...It wasn't refrigerated....Sometimes the local agent was
authorized to purchase a small amount of ice to put in the lids of the can, but
it didn't amount to much.
ABout all that could be done was to keep the cans in the shade in the summer
time.
Sometimes the can would overheat and blow the lid off.?? My dad was carrying
one one time and that happened...He had to go home and get clean overalls.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cafferata <mcaff1@htc.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:39 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Empty Can Waybill
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
a
> 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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