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1. [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:13:54 -0500 (EST); Rich, The Rochelle plant was a Swift & Co. plant. It handled prinarily hogs but also beef. In the earliest days the stock arrived via rail on stock #1 and mtys were iced on the "ice Track" next to th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00184.html (11,500 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: rgortowski@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:22:00 EST; Leo, I sure the smell was tough to take! Was it a Swift even back in 1950? Rapido is coming out with the General America 37' meat reefers, an the Swift car is one of the cars they will produce. Just; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00185.html (12,085 bytes)
3. Fwd: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:36:01 -0500 (EST); Rich, I'm going from memory here w/o looking at the supporting docs but I believe Swift built the plant in 1948. It was still Swift when I had the pleasure of switching it in the early to mid 70s. Th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00186.html (11,329 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:46:04 -0500; Any idea about how long these Swift cars were in use? Swift operated a turkey plant in Keokuk (not sure of dates, but the building was still there a few years ago. I've got a couple of steel reefers; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00187.html (12,445 bytes)
5. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: rgortowski@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:28:25 EST; Duncan, I can't find anything on the Swift paint scheme, but here is some good general information on Rapido's web site: _http://www.rapidotrains.com/freight2.html_ (http://www.rapidotrains.com/freig; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00188.html (12,571 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:37:36 -0800 (PST); At one time they even had an open house. We drove out from Aurora to it but can not remember what year it was. I didn't mess with hogs till I got moved to Galesburg in '83 and worked part-time for th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00191.html (13,112 bytes)
7. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:57:16 -0500; Thanks Rich. That certainly suggests some of the cars would still be on the rails. I wonder whether they would have used this kind of car for turkeys. It looks like they were primarily beef and pork.; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00195.html (13,882 bytes)
8. [CBQ] Rochelle Meat Packing Plant (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:36:29 -0500 (EST); Doug, Swift at Rochelle was the only packing plant I had the pleasure to switch. As far as my research goes Aurora Pack at North Aurora, alongside the West Chicago line, never had rail service.Those; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00205.html (12,896 bytes)

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