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I have always heard, when I was a kid in Woodhull,
that ice harvesting was done at the Cresent Lake at Alpha.
Good paying work, if you like walking on water that you would
not want to drink, except while swimming.
Ron Peterson
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Leo Phillipp via groups.io <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2022 8:05 PM
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Subject: [CBQ] Did the Burlington cut and ship its own ice ?
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.
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?
Leo Phillipp
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