URTX and MILW, M&StL, SOO, C GW leased reefers: A Pool Arrangement?
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Ray Breyer
>>Dennis Storzek wrote: >>I don't think any of the granger roads originated enough reefer loads to really worry about it.... ORIGINATING LOADS, 1925 ROAD CITRUS FRESH FRUIT POTATOES FRESH VEG C&NW 29 1948 8744 4327 CMO 4 418 2513 475 CGW 12 168 139 288 MILW 66 1422 2794 3834 GB&W 0 41 2310 512 CB&Q 68 2813 4391 1194 C&A 7 1710 35 88 RI 51 1974 1878 1406 C&EI 0 1184 176 365 CI&L 0 225 12 280 CCC&StL 58 716 125 901 IC 160 31911 1277 7255 SOO 26 923 9032 740 More than likely, anyone who thinks that Grangers didn't produce reefer loads is modeling the wrong year. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL |
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The MSTL served a number of canneries, ie Marshall Canning of Western Grocer. Most were sweet corn canners, but pumpkin, peas, green beans, and like were also canned. A short season for processing, ie late July through Sept, but a skeleton staff kept on hand year round to label and ship cans as orders came in. Yes canned corn was kept on site in a warehouse ready to ship as needed. The cans of corn were stored unlabeled, when an order arrived usually the labels also arrived from the buyer. Cans were then unboxed, labeled, reboxed in new boxes and shipped. Reefers would have been used during winter months. The MSTL purchased 50’ insulated boxcars in the late 50’s for this traffic. But prior to that purchase, reefers could/would be used.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
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Dave Nelson
OH BOY!! I get to say it (again): All those tens of thousands of IC reefers were hauling bananas to Chicago. Growing up on the north side there were bananas in the house all eyar long.
Dave Nelson From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2017 4:42 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] URTX and MILW, M&StL, SOO, C GW leased reefers: A Pool Arrangement? Dennis Storzek wrote: I don't think any of the granger roads originated enough reefer loads to really worry about it.... ORIGINATING LOADS, 1925 ROAD CITRUS FRESH FRUIT POTATOES FRESH VEG C&NW 29 1948 8744 4327 CMO 4 418 2513 475 CGW 12 168 139 288 MILW 66 1422 2794 3834 GB&W 0 41 2310 512 CB&Q 68 2813 4391 1194 C&A 7 1710 35 88 RI &n! bsp; 51 1974 1878 1406 C&EI 0 1184 176 365 CI&L 0 225 12 280 CCC&StL 58 716 125 901 IC 160 31911 1277 7255 SOO 26 923 9032 740 More than likely, anyone who thinks that Grangers didn't produce reefer loads is modeling the wrong year. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL |
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Ray Breyer
>>OH BOY!! I get to say it (again): All those tens of thousands of IC
reefers were hauling bananas to Chicago. >>Growing up on the north side
there were bananas in the house all eyar long. >>Dave Nelson The stats I cited are from 1925 Dave, not 1955: there was a far larger mix of regional produce variation back in the good old days of railroading. That's why the IC had 4500 reefers, and also1800 ventilated boxcars. That's also why you see pre-Depression era photos of IC reefers in Ft. Dodge, LaSalle, and Dodgeville. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL |
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William Hirt
Doug, This matches my experience. Though after the time of this list, I worked at the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL one summer in the 1970s. We canned peas and lima beans first starting mid-late June and then transitioned to corn and cream corn. If I recall correctly, there were eight full time non-management employees at the cannery as they shipped year 'round via the C&NW and truck. They used a mix of students and migrant workers to staff the cannery during packing time. Canning went on 16-18 hours a day, sometimes longer depending on the day's harvest. The filled cans were stored unlabeled after going through the retort and then labeled when an order came in. The bigger Del Monte cannery was 15 miles west in Rochelle. Bill Hirt On 9/2/2017 7:46 PM, 'Doug Harding'
doug.harding@... [STMFC] wrote:
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