- 1. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schnepf <railsunl@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:47:17 -0500
- Hi Leo, I checked my detailed Dubuque track plans from 1945 and the IC's fruit Despatch house had four tracks each 460' long under roof. That building could cover 48 cars!! In interviewing a Milwauke
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- 2. [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:57:44 EDT
- Thanks to all of you who replied on the banana questions. Sounds like I missed a nice presentation at Dubuque meeting. I will look for the IC pub. Steve, Yes at Aurora Fruit. Also research is showing
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- 3. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:04:42 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo I wonder about Illinois Fruit and Produce in Streator as well. I do know in my Ottawa Research I found where they had farms and contracts here in Texas for produce. But being in Streator it may h
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- 4. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:15:12 -0400
- With all this Banana talk I just couldn't help remembering some of the old RR Magazine fiction..particularly E.S. Dellinger who worked for the Frisco and perhaps the IC...Several of his stories invol
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- 5. [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:29:13 EDT
- Just finished an article from a 1931 Railway Age on Q warehouse for bananas. Q was handling 350 carloads per month into and thru Minneapolis ! It's staggering the business that's moved to other modes
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- 6. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
- The routing was GM&N at Paducah. The Port of Mobile was the port of entry. Just finished an article from a 1931 Railway Age on Q warehouse for bananas. Q was handling 350 carloads per month into an
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- 7. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Webber <cz17@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:59:05 -0500
- The IC was the major purveyor of bananas, and they received cargo at all their Gulf ports. Bananas also came in from Seattle (and San Francisco - so don't assume automatically that the bananas are co
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- 8. Re: [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Bob It has been a couple years since I found the same article and I have asked guys from the St. Paul area but no one has figured out where it was at. So far not answers of where it was at. Leo I thi
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- 9. [CBQ] Bananas (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
- In the Tampa, Fla area the "Unit" was a stalk which the hand was cut off of. Bananas were imported in just about every port. A nice print is by Fogg of a set of GM&O FA's pulling off the Mobile dock
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