Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Milk Train

["kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>]

Leo,

As usual, thanks so much for the information.  I just took BB #51 off the shelf, and the article will be my evening read when I finish my outside chores.

Hope to see you soon.

Keith

On Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 09:33:40 AM CST, Leo Phillipp via groups.io <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:

Keith,

In the greater Chicago area the Chicago milk exchange was the destination for the majority of the milk. BRHS Bulletin #51 has an article on the Shabbona Milk train service. The run started out of Shabbona picking up milk at milk platforms along the C&I and then the east end. The run did not go into Union Station but into 14th st. Coach yard. From there the milk was transported for processing in the city.

The article provides a great deal of details as it’s based on the perspective of the brakeman handling all this cans. The article also describes the process of returning the empties.

Milk was also handled on passenger locals on other lines and eventually as trucks took over more of the milk Transportation the Shabbona milk train was abolished and its milk chores done by a local also making station stops.

I don’t have any info. On Bordens plants.

Leo Phillipp

On Feb 18, 2024, at 8:56 AM, kerhart@frontier.com wrote:



Good morning, Leo,

Hope all is well with you.  I continue to appreciate all your CB&Q knowledge and experience, and your willingness to share it with the membership and others. I attended your presentation in Dixon, IL a few years ago.  You showed a slide of a photo of Western Springs, IL with a steam train and milk platform.  You sent me a link to it of which I made a print that is now hanging on my train room wall.  The question I have is:  what company, and its location, would the milk cans along that suburban route have been taken to for processing?  Bordens had a plant for years in Woodsrock, IL serving the Chicago area which was not on the CB&Q.  Do you know if the Burlington served any Bordens' plants anywhere?  Thank you.

Keith Erhart

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