Search String: Display: Description: Sort:

Results:

References: [ +subject:/^(?:^\s*(re|sv|fwd|fw)[\[\]\d]*[:>-]+\s*)*\[CBQ\]\s+Bananas\s*$/: 9 ]

Total 9 documents matching your query.

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00002.html (12,696 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00007.html (10,691 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00011.html (11,728 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00027.html (14,485 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-07/msg00127.html (10,765 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-07/msg00128.html (11,400 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-07/msg00129.html (12,970 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-07/msg00130.html (13,185 bytes)

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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-03/msg00269.html (10,050 bytes)


This search system is powered by Namazu