Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Stock Cars on the C&I

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Bob,

 

You are correct. Del Monte and silage were synomous well into the 80s. The silage pile was west of the can plant and was primarily the corn shocks,etc. It turned from light green to brown as it fermented. By the 70s it was my observation that it was trucked out to farms as silage feed. As the pile was dug into for shipment it released one of those many smells that made Rochelle famous.

 

Leo

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Rich and listers,

I once talked to a retired employee of the canning plant about their side business of fattening cattle on the by-products of vegetable packing, i.e. the discarded vines et al. He said the cattle came in by rail and left by truck for Chicago after they were suitably fattened for slaughter. I think RR told me he recalled seeing piles of sileage at the canning plant. This process must have ended long before Leo worked for the BN or I'm sure he would have mentioned it.

Bob Herrick

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> List,
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> I'm modeling 1950, and I'm wondering if you would see live cattle inbound from Minneapolis/St. Paul heading east to Chicago? Also, would you see NP or GN stock cars heading east on the C&I? I could certainly see empties heading west to get them back to the home roads.
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> Also meat related - the Swift plant in Rochelle received live beef/hogs from where?
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> I appreciate any answers I can get.
>
> Rich G.
>

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