Here is a thread on train orders.com about handling human remains, very
interesting. someone even attached a cover of a pamphlet issued by Santa Fe
for morticians/funeral directors
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,2343682 Also I remember my
Mom telling me about her Grandmother who died in St. Louis in the 50's and
her remains were transported by the CB&Q to Louisiana MO to be laid to rest.
John Lee
St. Louis, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Fleming" <kf5632@gmail.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Shipping human remains by rail
> No photos,but an eyewitness description. During the fifties, my father was
> the baggageman on the Chicago-Mendota local. I would ride with him a few
> Saturdays a year. During the Korean War we had two sets of Military
> remains, that I remember. Both were it very large, wood rough boxes.
> Each
> had an envelope attached at the "head end" of the rough box. It contained
> the information on the remains and the routing info. One rough box was
> natural color and the other was a little blue almost grey color. There
> were
> no external markings on these rough boxes.
>
> At the receiving station, always West of Aurora, it would take the entire
> train crew and station agent to lift the rough box out of the baggage car
> and on to a baggage cart. I wonder today as to how they got it off the
> cart
> and into a hearse. I believe they were too big for a standard hearse. If
> there was an escort, I don't remember seeing one.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel <no17eng654@aol.com> wrote:
>
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>> 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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