Re: [CBQ] Freight houses

["qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Yes Jan. The freight houses used standard designed deck plates between cars. Other industries also used these. One I recall was the Delmonte can plant at Rochelle,IL. 

The standard car in LCL service was 40 ft. Box cars. Occasionally a 50 footer or a reefer would be used. This caused extra switching effort to line up the doors.

If you go to page 74 of BRHS Bulletin 51 there is a feature on how the Aurora, IL freight house operated with insight into what could go wrong too.

As FYI I am far into a piece on the Qs Chicago multi house LCL operations for a future bulletin and a general financial history of LCL on the Q and ICC regulations governing it. Dozens of visuals,maps,photos,internal correspondence,etc

Leo Phillipp

On Jan 18, 2016, at 7:43 AM, JK public@redtower.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

On page 53 of Bud's new book about Quincy, there is a photo of the freight house
in operation. It appears that the center row of boxcars can only be accessed by
stepping through other boxcars with boards or a ramp. Was this true, and was
this common practice at multi-track freight houses? If so, I guess this was also
a problem if you had a mix of 34', 40' and 50' boxcars to unload. Finally, I
guess it also meant that the center line had to be unloaded last, and re-loaded
first if there was any return freight?

Cheers!

Jan Kohl
www.castlegraphics.com

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