Ed is right about the coal. It would arrive in both hoppers and gons. A lot
of
the open space on either side of the tracks was filled with coal bins and or
piles. Bins would keep the rain off and stop freezing in coal weather. It was
also the reason for a lot of the business from two other industries along the Q
Stephen-Adamson and Barber-Greene both makers of bulk material convoyers.
There
were still a couple of the BG Elevators along the tracks in Galesburg up till
'93 when I got moved out. If you went to the Kansas City Annual meet and took
train trip there were coal bins at the time being used for other uses along the
tracks.
Look in the back grounds of photo and you can pick out the coal bins
Steve in SC
________________________________
From: Ed Pavlovic <cbq168a@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, September 8, 2011 11:40:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Rochelle
Leo,
Yes it really has been that long. I did look at the 1940 station map
and Rochelle Rose is identified as the "Ambling Rose Co." on the map.
The track that they were on didn't go much farther east, the warehouse
to the east (that was the can plant, correct?) was not there at the
time. They had quite an expanse of greenhouses at the time.
As a side note on coal, for an interesting insight on the local coal
yards, I would suggest reading the late Ed DeRouin's book on the North
Shore Line's freight service, there's a couple of pages that go into
quite a bit of detail on the operations of a small coal and fuel yard in
the book.
Ed Pavlovic
qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
>
> Ed you are of course correct about Rochelle Rose. Has it really been
> 11
> years since we did that tour !
> Rochelle Rose continued to receive coal well into the 70s as I spotted
> a
> car or two there and recall seeing them when passing by on C&I
> freights.
>
> The little history piece tied to the coal for Rochelle Rose
> greenhouses was
> that it was just one of multitudes of like greenhouses around the
> country
> receiving coal. This is rarely discussed and therefore an almost
> forgotten
> aspect of past times. There were two large greenhouses on the West
> Batavia
> Branch,one at Oswego and Montgomery,etc,etc
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
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