Tom,
A great source of railroad served industry information is the
NMRA Operations SIG web site. There is a separate section with
crowd sourced industry info. The web address is:
<http://www.opsig.org/reso/inddb/>
Froedtert Malt in Winona was served by the MILW and CGW (later
C&NW). Because of traffic splits, it was not unusual for
non-home railroads to have cars assigned to off-line. For example,
the Carnation plant in Waverly, IA, on the CGW in 1966 had RRBX
cars 79708-79711 assigned to it. PRR also had 4 cars assigned,
C&EI, D&RGW and GB&W 2 cars each, and Southern 1 car.
I recall reading that General Electric's Appliance Park appliance
assembly plants had cars from 29 different railroads assigned to
it in 1960 even though it was only directly served by the L&N
and maybe SOU. I hope some of the former Q or BN traffic agents
can add more to this.
There was an article about 2 years ago by Brian Holtz (BRHS
member) in the Operations SIG publication Dispatcher's Office when
he was the traffic manager for Schlitz in Milwaukee in the 1970s.
The brewery was served by the MILW, but he used whatever railroad
would provide cars to ship product and give them as much of the
haul as possible. He said he was able to get brand new cars from
the ATSF, D&RGW, and the P&W this way because the payments
by Schlitz for moving beer in the cars to the railroads providing
cars exceeded what the cars cost the railroads in construction,
loan and maintenance costs.
Railroads have circular that indicated specific car assignments.
I have a copy of one that was kept by a CGW conductor of all
assigned cars on the CGW as of March 7, 1966. I would be
interested in seeing similar one for the CB&Q. I've attached
to this message the CGW car assignment circular as the CGW had
cars assigned to various CB&Q served customers at that time.
Bill Hirt
On 11/24/2018 7:23 AM, Tom Mack via
Groups.Io wrote:
Does anyone know what industries the Q served in Winona, MN? Was
Froedtert Malt one of them? I have an empty NP covered hopper in a
wheel report being interchanged to the Q in Mpls/StP and headed to
FROEDTERT, but no destination city. Froedtert Malting had plants
in Winona and Milwaukee. My guess is this CH was headed to Winona.
On the same note, how did the Q operate from Mpls/StP to Winona?
Would the cars have been dropped off at La Crosse and then a
wayfreight worked back to Winona? Any insight in Q wayfreight
operations around Winona and La Crosse would be appreciated.
--
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
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