The Burlington had a ready supply of ice from the Mississippi River. They
harvested ice at Hannibal. Keokuk, and Ft Madison.
> On Apr 2, 2022, at 10:05 PM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io
> <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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> I viewed a picture today while doing some research that brought questions to
> mind.
> It’s been well documented how the Q (like many railroads) operated on a
> vertical integration business model. That is it controlled and produced as
> many of its needed inputs itself as possible. Examples would be car building
> and repair ,car scrapping and parts reclaiming ,operating landfills ,gravel
> pits and hosts of other functions.
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> The icing platforms that re-iced the reefer cars had to consume massive
> quantities of ice. Something I’ve never thought about before is did the Q
> cut,load,ship,etc ice from locomotive water ponds/lakes (I’m thinking of
> places like Galesburg and Mendota ,IL that had large reservoirs built by the
> Q for locomotive water in the dead of winter before commercial mechanical ice
> houses were developed ?
> If so we’re the ice cutting/loading crews RR employees or hired seasonal
> contractors?
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> Leo Phillipp
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