Miles, thanks for the info. That helps.
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
From: Miles W. Rich
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:43 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Rochelle Meat packing Plant
Frozen eviscerated turkeys, i.e., Swift Butterball, etc., were shipped by
mechanically refrigerated cars, but in the days of Ice insulated Wood reefers,
turkeys, before the days of Butterball, were shipped NY Dressed on ice, with
their feet and head attached, and the entrails not removed. "Canner" packed
turkeys were also shipped by rail. I don't know when the Swift Keokuk plant
closed, but we shipped turkeys on the CRI&P from Louis Rich Foods in West
Liberty in the early and mid 60's, and received them by rail into the mid 70's.
We also shipped turkeys from Terminal Freezers in Rock Island Illinois on the
DRI Line, but I don't remember any wooden reefers. The RI had a limited number
of mechanical cars available, and we often received turkeys from the west in
PFE's, but they were again, steel mechanical cars, not wood cars that were
iced.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Rich. That certainly suggests some of the cars would still be on the
rails.
> I wonder whether they would have used this kind of car for turkeys. It
looks like they were primarily beef and pork.
> Others interested in some of Swift's cars may find this helpful as well.
> It came up by googling Swift reefers.
> http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun24a.pdf
>
> Duncan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rgortowski@...
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant
>
>
>
> Duncan,
>
> I can't find anything on the Swift paint scheme, but here is some good
> general information on Rapido's web site:
>
> _http://www.rapidotrains.com/freight2.html_
> (http://www.rapidotrains.com/freight2.html)
>
> Rich
>
>
> In a message dated 1/19/2011 7:46:20 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> d.cameron@... writes:
>
> Any idea about how long these Swift cars were in use?
> Swift operated a turkey plant in Keokuk (not sure of dates, but the
> building was still there a few years ago.
> I've got a couple of steel reefers but would happily add to the fleet if
> the wood cars were still on the rails in the early sixties.
> Duncan Cameron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: _qutlx1@..._ (mailto:qutlx1@...)
> To: _cbq@yahoogroups.com_ (mailto:cbq@yahoogroups.com)
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:36 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant
>
> Rich,
>
> I'm going from memory here w/o looking at the supporting docs but I
> believe
> Swift built the plant in 1948. It was still Swift when I had the pleasure
> of switching it in the early to mid 70s.
> The plant was off the "ice track" which was just east of the "coal chute
> board". It was on the south side at the power plant xing east of town. It
> was immediately east of Standard Oil. Another place that had interesting
> aromas.
>
> Leo Phillipp
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