The current stub track has been the bulk product unloading track for decades. Air slides early on and now pressure differential(PD) cars are the norm. The track a little West had two door spots as I recall for frozen food outbound. In the 70s it's my recollection we'd spot an empty mechanical reefer from the servicing track at Cicero on the Congress Park job one night and pick it up loaded the next.
Pepperridge also shipped out bread in baggage cars from the track behind the Downers Grove depot which would be picked up by an eastbound night dinky. Several of the old heads I once worked with mentioned it and it's in the 1950s ETT footnotes that a night dinky was to pickup from behind the depot.
Leo Phillipp there was an additional track at pepperidge farm called the freezer track. mech reefers were loaded.what was shipped i do not recall.
Michael,
I believe that they may have shipped flour into the plant and that additional track was used for unloading. They also may have received other material such as knocked down carb boxes. My uncle had the original trucking contract with that Pepperidge plant in the early 1950s when it first opened. His trucks delivered bread and other products to all of the Chicago downtown railroad stations for shipment on passenger trains to other destinations. The loaves of bread were packed in large cardboard boxes.
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