Fred,
Thank you for the great story. I still find fascinating to find
out about these kind of traffic moves.
Bill Hirt
On 2/10/2019 9:06 AM, Fred Crissey
wrote:
Boys and Girls:
I've enjoyed reading about
Leavenworth and I want to put my two cents in. When I was chief
clerk in the Q's Detroit Sales Office in the mid 1960's I would
see the occasional car of flour moving from Leavenworth to Buick
Motor at Flint, MI via CB&Q- C&O. What in earth would
Buick being using flour for? I asked the salesman who covered
that territory and the boss who handled the auto accounts about
it. Neither one knew but the boss suggested I call Buick
Traffic and find out. I did and I happened to get a guy who I
had known in Detroit when he worked for the IC. After I made
some disparaging remarks about Buick using paste to assemble
their products with and receiving some nasty cracks about the
Burlington he told me that the flour was used in some of their
air pollution control devices at the plant. The flour was not
food grade but it would attract the bad particles which attach
to it and they could separate it and dispose of without it going
into the atmosphere. The railroad business is always
fascinating.
Fred Crissey
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