Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others
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Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others A 1932 photo from the Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/ulm-p120701coll10%3A200 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Click on the photo and scroll. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Steve SANDIFER
Note the stock pen. The first class ballast.
J. Stephen Sandifer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via groups.io
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 12:41 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others
Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others A 1932 photo from the Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/ulm-p120701coll10%3A200 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Click on the photo and scroll. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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mel perry
boxcar refugees?, was this term something common in louisianna? it obviously had somethin to.do with their scoio/economic status, but what was the term derived from? thanks mel perry
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Mel,
My interpretation was that boxcars were being used to house refugees from the flood.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of mel perry <clipper841@...>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 2:38 PM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others boxcar refugees?, was this term something common in louisianna?
it obviously had somethin to.do with
their scoio/economic status, but what
was the term derived from?
thanks
mel perry
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Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 01:39 PM, Bruce Smith wrote:
I agree. I seem to recall the IC was called upon to provide boxcars for temporary housing for several of the bad floods in the early part of the twentieth century. Dennis Storzek
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gary laakso
Herbert Clark Hoover, while serving as Secretary of Commerce, was dispatched to Louisiana by President Coolidge to make sure that federal relief money went to the victims, not the grafters.
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 1:39 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: IC Boxcar 340844 & Others
Mel,
My interpretation was that boxcars were being used to house refugees from the flood.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of mel perry <clipper841@...>
boxcar refugees?, was this term something common in louisianna? it obviously had somethin to.do with their scoio/economic status, but what was the term derived from? thanks mel perry
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 10:41 AM Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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There are additional photos on the website showing temporary housing in freight cars due to the flooding.
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