Leo,
When and why did General Mills shut it down? What are they
doing with those big buildings that they had?
Russ
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Sent: Thursday, 05 March, 2009 15:34
Subject: [CBQ] Hot Move at Eola
>I don't want to paint Eola in a totally negative picture as there were many
> good customer serving moves made there too.
> General Mills was one of the customers who had direct phone numbers to the
> right people to get what they wanted NOW. I was on both the phone line
> receiving these calls and in the trains on at least one occasion. I also
> heard the
> stories of other cases. It was not uncommon for General Mills to call
> "the
> White House" and say that car xyz 123 was leaving their plant on the Belt
> in
> Chicago that afternoon and was need at West Chicago on the PM mail w/o
> fail.
> Cicero would expedite switching of the car into a west bound stopping at
> Eola.
> The night or afternoon mail would be called back from West Chicago to
> fetch the
> car from Eola where the yard engine had placed it first out on the "new
> Track" for quick p/u and departure by the mail. General Mills would be
> happy for
> awhile and then there'd be another call .............................
>
> Leo Phillipp
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