Dan, The image is actually in the photo section under the title "Human
Remains"
On Jul 4, 2011, at 6:13 AM, archie hayden wrote:
> 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:
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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.
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>>> 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@...
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>> 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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