Re: [CBQ] Temporary Depot at Ord, Neb.

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In 1965 I worked briefly for a lumber company in New Carlisle, OH and helped unload a 50' boxcar full of lumber, stick by stick, into a company truck.  The lumber company was half a block away from the team track.

 

Bob Arthur

 

In a message dated 1/23/2014 1:34:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com writes:

 

Great picture Hol...I've never seen a coach used as a temporary depot equipped with a train order signal....This is indeed unique

Also shows the day to day activity of boxcars being unloaded....by hand...on the team track.   Brings back some of my own memories of seeing the same kind of activity at Rock Port with coal, gravel and sand being hand shoveled out of gondolas into the drayman's truck as well as 40 foot boxcars of lumber being unloaded  "board by board" for transport "uptown" to the lumber yards.

Truly a great depiction of railroad activity in the "heyday" of the small town and the branchline railroad.

Pete

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