Re: [CBQ] Shipping human remains by rail

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I don't have a picture but I can add a little in the way of facts about this 
piece of business.  The price for carrying a corpes was a one way coach fare 
but this was credited to baggage accounts.  The tariff provided that "as many 
flowers as will fit on top of the casket may be carried free". 


From: Daniel <no17eng654@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 4, 2011 9:31 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Shipping human remains by rail


  

As part of the Manly Jct. Railroad Museum (Iowa)displays, we will have 17 flat 
screens depicting different North Iowa-Southern Minnesota railroads. In 
addition, we will feature things like Railway Mail Service, Railway Express, 
etc. Many human remains were transferred in North Iowa and Southern Minnesota 
by rail up to discontinuance of most trains in the late 60's. 

Would anyone out there be able to share a photo that would demonstrate the 
common scene of handling human remains by train? 

Dan Sabin
No17Eng654@aol.com




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