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I can answer the "blood" question. Dried blood was used to make cattle feed (it raises the protein content). Dried blood used to come in 100 pound sacks. I was once "conned" into unloading a boxcar load of dried blood that had been rejected by the receiver. I was raising beef cattle, at the time and I was told I could have it for "free". It was not on pallets so my father-in-law and I unloaded it by hand. It was a rainy winter day, and of course, a lot of the sacks were broken. It turned into a slimy, nasty, slick mess. It was one of the worst days work, I ever endured! I swear, it took me days to get rid of the smell and I had to burn my work clothes. On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:35 AM, "Rick Woods rwoods613@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Wow, lot's of great info in these wheel reports! A big thank you to those who did the work to transcribe them to Excel and do the research on the ORER car types. Some questions I would like to pose to the group:
1. There are some really interesting loads in this consist including a box car of explosives for the DoD, but one load really caught my eye -- a load of "blood" in a CB&Q 50' SD boxcar bound for Moorman Milling in Quincy. I'm guessing the blood was used to make blood meal, but how was blood package for transport? Dried, powdered and bagged? Liquid in drums?
2. There are few loads of bottles in the consist bound for Anheuser-Busch in St Louis. I'm guessing the bottles may have come from one of the bottle factories in Streator. In the report there is no interchange railroad listed, suggesting the loads were handled all the way by the Q to A-B. Was this really the case, and if so, under what agreement?
3. In the consist, there is a SOO gon with a scrap load that is getting handed off to the TRRA at Alton. I don't recall the TRRA having a direct line to Alton, so how did they get there? Trackage rights on the Q from St Louis and over the Q swing bridge to Alton?
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