Dan
Page 32 in the SD Bulletin looks like a 40 foot EJ&E car behind the locomotive
In 1973-74 we use to get a load of can stock from American Can in the red 40
foot 8 ft door DF cars at Congress Park every nite and it went north on #185
the
next afternoon but it was headed north of St.Paul somewhere(senior moment)
The Ice Reefers would sometimes be used to carry can and bottled goods that
were subject to freezing in the winter before the insulated box cars came
along. Much to the dismay of beer bottlers who wanted the cars back right away
Steve in SC
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From: Dan <dlgrobe@ameritech.net>
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, September 13, 2011 11:29:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Rochelle
Leo
Thanks for the great info. Can you give any more info about the EJE boxcars?
How many cars did the can plant get? The J is the other RR I have an interest
in
and you really don't hear much about where the cars went.
Dan
On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:43 AM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
> Jon,
>
> I think we covered cars piecemeal in some of the followup exchanges but
> heres a summary by industry. The time period you model makes a big
> difference.
> Oh and of course this brought more memories to mind.
>
> Can Plant-Tinplate arrived in 50' double door 'J' box cars. Went out in
> "system" double door 50s. System gons for scrap. The tinplate blew out of the
> cars and the stuff was along the ROW from Rochelle to Aurora. At some point
> they started putting a plastic mesh over the loaded cars. One of the
> regular day brakeman had a nice side income picking the heavy scrap out of
> the
>
> "clean" inbound cars that he took everday to the local scrap dealer for
> ready cash. He later died from on duty accident at Carnation.
>
> Delmonte,Stokley,Rochelle Asparagus,Carnation all used RBLs.
> FGEX,RBBQ,WFEX then to BN system marks,etc and many foreign ones also as
> they
>were in
>
> assigned pools. In case some dont know the AAR car lingo an RBL is an
> insulated box car. They were developed starting in the late 50s for canned
> goods,etc. Prior to that it most likely was mty reefers(for temperature
>protection
>
> ) and 40 foot box cars.
>
> Swift- the oldest smallest tank cars for the period you model for
> tallow,urea,etc old dog box cars for hides and other PHP. Stock cars inbound
> if
>
> early time period. Meat ice reefers for loading and then mechanical reefers.
> Thats where the "ice" track at Rochelle got its name. The reefers going
> into the plant were iced just outside on an extension between the storage
> track and the switch into Swift off the main.
>
> Standard Oil-UTLX tank cars as there was a corporate historical tie there
> and also other leasing companies such as GATX,etc. These would be 8 &10k
> cars until the 60s and 70s when cars "grew". Of course the Q tanks that have
> been discussed.
>
> New City-N&W battleship hoppers and Q hoppers. Also occassional PRRs.and
> ICs.
>
> Just make sure you have far more cars than the layout will hold so its
> realistic operations !
>
> Leo
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