Nowadays, with combines, the cobs end up on the ground, in the field, but when I was growing up on the farm, we hauled cob corn to the elevator, where they shelled it. Nearly every elevator had a "cob burner" and talk about a hot fire. The cobs burned with a blue flame! We burned them in our home heating stove, too. One time, my dad had a "bright idea" to throw in the whole unshelled ears and almost burned the house down.
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars
I have three bedrooms in my home carpeted with corn based carpet. It's 5 years old and looks and feels great.
On the other hand corn based ethanol is far more expensive than oil based gasoline.
Leo
Corn cobs were used in the manufacturing of early plastics. Maybe we should go back to them instead of oil. Dr. GW Carver found a hundred or more uses for the peanut. We could find all kind of uses for corn cobs, soy, etc and reduce our dependence on oil. Noel
From: " Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.comSent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:18:09 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars
Those cars with auto racks were known as "Evans Device Cars"...They were "Hi Cube" cars and could be used for loading of low density commodities...ie cobs...like from corn for you city boys...
We used to pick up 3-4 of these at Ong Nebraska loaded with cobs from shelled corn..Corn was, in those days picked on the ear..Set aside for a few months to dry and then shelled. The cobs went to an alcohol plant located along the river in Omaha...Along with other "less than environmentally friendly" products. &nbs
p;ie lead.
Pete -----Original Message----- From: ' fhc925@frontier.com' fhc925@frontier.com [CBQ] < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 4:24 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars
Yes the Q was still hauling autos in box cars in 1957. When I moved to Detroit in the spring of 1964, one of the first things I had to do was get a destination (shop location) from the mechanical Dept. for the release of the last two CBQ box cars being used for "setup" autos. BTW they were assigned to Cadillac on the NYC in Detroit. Fred Crissey
It is interesting that in 1957, the Q was still overhauling automobile cars with racks!
[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]
Tom:
Here are before and after views, one of them in color.
Hol
No sooner did I post this then I thought to check the CB&Q Group archives and found the info I needed. There is a great article with photos of the XA-16's in the Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 13. If anyone has links to additional photos on the web, though, I would like to see some color photos.
Tom Mack Cincinnati, OH ---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <thommack@...> wrote : I am looking for information and photos of the CB&Q XA-16 double-door 40 ft boxcars. The notes I have show that there were 500 of these 40' 6" double door automobile boxcars built in 1946 at Havelock in series 39000-39499. Between 1954 and 1962 the were converted to "regular boxcars" and renumbered into the 9000-9499 series. 19 of these cars remained in service as of the merger. My BN diagrams show these cars were renumbered BN 197880-197899 and still had a 15' door opening, which indicates they still had double doors.
Details
and photos/links of these cars would be appreciated.
Tom Mack Cincinnati, OH &nbs
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