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Barber Greene was the "break" spot on the Irish Mail. We'd pull over the  
main xing(Charles St?) with the engine and help ourselves to the  employee  
cafeteria coffee. After a bit the loading foreman would show up  with the 
details. 
The company was started by the 2 aforementioned individuals one of whom had 
 been an employee of Stephanson-Adamson(SA),(see Aurora Centenial book) the 
 other huge plant on the line to Geneva/West Batavia just a few blocks 
south of  B-G. The Irish Mail was a 16 hr hog law job for many decades 
performing all the  switching at these two mamoth plants and others along the 
line 
and on the east  bank of the River as far as North Aurora. According to my 
father in  law(aretired SA employee) SA and B-G made similar fixed conveyor  
systems and would sometimes compete on orders and sometimes co-ordinate to 
fill  an order. B-G had the blacktopping equipment locked up for many  decades.
Switching the loading dock at B-G with an SW1(9140) required the brakeman  
to stand on the left side of the box on the front porch to pass signs to the 
 engineer due to the sharp radius curve between the various docks which 
actually  curved around the buildings for more than a city block or two (hows 
that for  first hand knowledge?!). What radio ?
Then we'd set the loads to the measuing tracks out over the xing and shove  
the mtys back in. The rip track truck from Eola was sometimes at B-G while 
we  were there and we would get clearance on the loads. If not they would 
hold  outside the plant until the next day or until we turned at the cooperage 
to come  back. This entire area with 3 plus tracks was blacktopped. In fact 
the main was  blacktopped in front of the B-G office for a block.
Inbound steel plate went into the plant at the North end and actually part  
of the plant was the old car barn for the CA&D interurban. By the time  I 
worked the job there was no inbound coal but the spur next to the loading  
docks was still there. 
Scrap also was pulled from the north end. The Aurora Greenhouse spur came  
south from Illinois Ave almost to B-G but thats another story.
 
Maybe an article someday on this job/line. I even have the Q drawings for  
doubling the sidings at C&E Refractories at Illinois Ave that never  
happened. The amount of industry that existed and is now gone is  mind 
boggling. 
But then again I think thats true of most of the USA.
 
Just to see if anybody read all this: who knows what Blanchford was and  
where was it located ?
 
Leo Phillipp


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