[CBQ] The Great Pickle Car Train Wreck of 1918

["David Pease via groups.io" <david_f_pease=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

The January theme for the Burlington Route Historical Society must be pickles! 
First the Burlington Bulletin no. 68 has an article on the Congress Park train 
wreck in 1918 showing a wrecked pickle car. And then the BRHS calendar for 
January has a train passing pickle vats at Fort Collins, Colorado.

I have always had a fascination with pickle cars. I can't imagine how many 
pickles one of those cars held. Good eating!

I showed the calendar picture to my brother he said it had to be a mistake, 
that those vats must be oil tanks. He couldn't believed they grew pickles in 
Fort Collins. I said we live in Powell, Wyoming on the CB&Q Cody branch line 
and that I planted just a few cucumber plants and got 40 quart jars of pickles. 
Cucumber plants are like zucchini, you have to be careful about number you 
plants you plant or you will had an explosion!

Anyway, to my question, does anyone have more information on the pickle 
operation around Fort Collins?

Thanks, David


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