[CBQ] Re: chickens

["lindsey_m_fowler" <lindsey_m_fowler@yahoo.com>]

Yes Sir, but the Perry Short line Railroad which was narrow gauge and once 
owned by Mister PT Barnum did the chicken hauling to New London. Now wasn't the 
Hannibal and St. Louis once narrow gauge? I think it was because the they went 
to standard gauge, and the Perry Short Line could not comply at New London, so 
that's why it went under.. At least that's the story I'm told. I grew up 9 
miles from Center and 8 miles from Perry.. Some of the old Perry Short Line 
bridge abutments and road bed are still in along Hwy 19 west of Center..


--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Conrad Cheatham <okete12000@...> wrote:
>
>   Chickens and other fowl and their byproducts were big business on some 
> railroads. The little St. Louis & Hannibal (interchanged with the Q in 
> Hannibal, 
> MO) had several poultry plants on line. The R.S. Buchannan Co. had plants in 
> Perry and Center, MO that shipped poultry back East as did Kuhne Bros. in 
> Troy, 
> MO. Easterners liked our Missouri chickens.
>   Conrad Cheatham
>




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