Years ago I worked for a freight forwarding company that operated out
of Corwith yard on the ATSF. We learned the hard way to use insulated
boxcars for certain commodities after shipping chocolate Easter
Bunnies in February in conventional cars, forgetting that while it
might be below zero here, it wasn't in Los Angels. When the cars
arrived we got a call from our west coast distributor asking rather
sarcastically as to what they should do with the chocolate Eater
pancakes we'd shipped them.
Mike Matalis
Downers Grove IL
On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:30 PM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
> Keep in mind that during winter,while not needed for produce,reefers
> were
> used for many other products.
> Beer moved in reefers,with heaters in winter. Canned goods,etc went
> into
> reefers before the advent of the RBL class of insulated box cars.
> Somewhere I
> have a picture of the Mt Morris main in front of the depot at
> Oregon,IL full of
> reefers for the Carnation Milk plant.Nice back haul move.
> My first hand experience is that potatoes and onions moved in
> winter,in
> large volumes, with heaters in the cars. I even have documents that
> prove Armour
> Dial shipped cases of dial soap in an Armour reefer.
>
> Seems the possibilities are almost limitless.
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
>
>
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