[CBQ] Re: Orient Coal, Franklin Co. Illinois.

["dr strangelove" <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com>]

Posted the picture in my Z scale album. Its the last album.


--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
>
> During my time as a management trainee with Old Ben Coal Co., I was required 
> to "rotate" through the various departments of the company. During my 
> rotation in the traffic department, I met an older man who had been a 
> traveling salesman in the sales department (which by that time had been 
> abolished). His territory had been Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. He said, "I 
> would sell a carload to a grocery store, if I could." That was my favorite 
> rotation, because our main carrier was the BN!
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: dr strangelove <kaiserwillieii0815@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:58 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] Orient Coal, Franklin Co. Illinois.
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> 
> Â   
>  
> I was poking around Trainboard, where a member posts pictures of very old 
> signs, when  I ran across one for Stevenson Coal Co. of Central City, 
> Nebraska. 
> The sign had a picture of a 1930ish dump truck, with Orient Coal  sign on it. 
> It also advertised that fact that it came from Franklin County Illinois.The 
> reason I am posting this is that is that it it is a good reference for 
> showing  a commodity that that was moved on the Q, from its start point in 
> Southern Illinois, to its end point in Nebraska.
>




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