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Jan, Leo and list Talking about spotting different length cars into freight houses reminded me of switching the old International Harvester plant in Canton, Illinois. The plant track ran on the west side of the building and the doors were spaced where both 34 and 40 foot box cars were needed. So we went to the "cleaning" tracks on the south edge of town and switched the cars our in certain order. I could not understand why we were switching the cars since they were all empty box cars. When we shoved into the plant we shoved to the very end of track and made cuts at 4 and 5 car length intervals. The old heads working the job told me that they knew the length requirements so that the cars would all line up, so they might have 2 40's 2 34's and another 40 in the first cut and so on down the line. The track held about 25 cars total. In case your wondering, I never did learn the ratio s an extra man. Leo I am looking forward to your next bulletin article, the last one was fantastic. Bud Linroth. From: "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight houses 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
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