Dan, If the scene I put in the files would work for you, let me know
and I will email you the image. Archie
On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:23 AM, shuck n' jive wrote:
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> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel" <no17eng654@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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@...
> >
> No photo but when I was looking through old records at the C&S Rice
> Yard during my meal breaks, i read many letters of correspondence
> (1898-1915)that stipulated an escort had to accompany a corpse
> (maybe these were the "corpsemen" president Obama was referring to
> in that famous speech of his. Two of the letters ok'd a half rate
> for the escorts, one stated the fare was the full rate. Interesting
> when you think that the CB&Q D&RG etc gave free transportation to
> those, who by law were required to escort livestock shipments
> (drovers)but if you escorted human remains you had to pay the half
> or a full rate (not rite) of passage. I have several D&RG livestock
> travel contracts (1897) showing the free rate for drovers. An old
> C&S conductor I worked with said the drover caboose was invented
> because the drovers, in taking care of the cattle, smelled (and
> presumeably, looked) very bad and had to be kept out of the coaches
> and the fare paying hoi polloi!
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