RE: [CBQ] Grain Haulage

["'Tom Kline' TKline@airmail.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

During the grain rush it was not uncommon for some of our switchmen to give ‘late’ hand signals while switching in the yard resulting in some pretty rough couplings.  This ‘accidental’ mishandling would cause or exacerbate any grain leaking from the doors as Leo mentioned.  This always seemed to happen on the yard tracks away from the office and ones with roads or trails alongside where you could drive a vehicle down.  During hunting season after dark it was not unusual to find the deer hunters of the crews scooping up spilled corn into sacks to use in their feeders and hauling trunkloads of the stuff home.  At other times crewmen who were raising a handful of corn eating animals at home would do the same thing.  Occasionally a resident from the nearby neighborhood would be seen walking around with a burlap sack doing the same thing.

 

Tom Kline

Houston

 

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Subject: [CBQ] Grain Haulage

 

 

Steve mentioned the box car at Congress Park leaking from the grain doors and car doors.
I'll add that the cars,both wood and steel leaked from all manner of spots along the car bodies.
Fork lifts were often used to open/close box car doors at industrial companies. From time to time a fork would slice into a car side while pushing the door.

Way Cars tool lockers were liberals supplied with rags. Train crews often stuck these into the gaps in grain loaded box cars that were leaking.

Probably something you've never seen on a model RR !

Leo Phillipp

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