Re: [CBQ] What could these crates be?

[Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com]

Thanks Phil...I wrote my diatribe before I saw your note...Dellinger's stories 
were based on the old Frisco and MOP in fact the story I mentioned..which is 
one of my old time favorites was based on the Frisco...Memphis to KC...He y 
used some of the real  town names along the route


Pete



-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Weibler <pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 12:15 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] What could these crates be?


 
  
    
                  


All courtesy of the Illinois Central Railroad and the endless parade of
"banana trains" that they ran up from New Orleans to Chicago and
everywhere else.   PAW

  
 
 
 
   From: archie hayden <klinerarch@charter.net>
 To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:58 AM
 Subject: Re: [CBQ] What could these crates be?
  
 
 
     
                  
I believe Eric has solved the mystery of the strange crates found at  
various depots along the Burlington.  To think our ancestors had  
bananas around the turn of the century.  What wonders  God hath  
wrought!  Thanks, Eric   Archie