The IC was the major purveyor of bananas, and they received cargo at
all their Gulf ports. Bananas also came in from Seattle (and San
Francisco - so don't assume automatically that the bananas are coming
from the southern ports. One of the IC magazines recently had an
article on banana handling.
At 07:45 PM 7/31/2009, you wrote:
>The routing was GM&N at Paducah. The Port of Mobile was the port of entry.
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>From: qutlx1@aol.com <qutlx1@aol.com>
>Subject: [CBQ] Bananas
>To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 1:29 PM
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>Just finished an article from a 1931 Railway Age on Q warehouse for
>bananas. Q was handling 350 carloads per month into and thru
>Minneapolis ! It's
>staggering the business that's moved to other modes over the decades.
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>Does anyone know how these would have been routed? IC(Centralia) Q, IC(East
>Dubuque)Q, IC(Mendota)Q ?
>This is back in the time when each road was trying to maximize earnings by
>miles so my guess would be East Dubuque but.........
>Rip Repetto used to tell the story of the banana mtys on the p/u out of
>Savanna coming from East Dubuque which totally confuses me. Why would the IC
>give the Q an mty IC car at East Dubuque ?
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>Related question what about cars of bananas for Aurora. What routing
>IC(Mendota,Centrali a or CHGO) Q ?
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>Leo Phillipp
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