Thanks Archie and Rupert. At the spring meet after dinner presentation we will
see and discuss the Q harvesting from a Q owned gravel pit !
With views showing foreign cars being loaded also.
Leo
> On Apr 2, 2022, at 10:52 PM, Rupert Gamlen <gamlenz@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Leo
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> Ice harvesting at Marsland, Nebraska was undertaken by a local contractor
> from 1901-1949, and the ice was loaded into CB&Q box cars. See Bulletin 53
> Addendum.
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> Rupert Gamlen
> Auckland NZ
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> From: BRHSlist@groups.io <BRHSlist@groups.io> On Behalf Of Leo Phillipp via
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> Subject: [BRHSlist] Did the Burlington cut and ship its own ice ?
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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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