Dan: Yuck...! When I was researching the GPEX Pfaudler Milk Cars, I found references to the IC moving Pfaudler's long after their milk hauling days carrying animals blood in the tanks. They moved from northern Illinois slaughter plants to processors down state to become an ingredient in fire fighting foam. This would be in the late 60's. Betcha those puppies were a joy to load and unload!
To ratchet forward for the contemproary guys... Recently I was trackside in Fostoria when a container train came through loaded predominantly with containers of some eastern city's garbage - phew!!! Jim Kindraka --- In [email protected], "danvandermause" <danvandermause@...> wrote: > > Jim: > > This is a great point for us all to keep in mind when building our car fleets > -- older, obsolete cars were sometimes cascaded down to specific services, > usually involving contaminating commodities. > > The "worst" example of this on the Southern Railway (where I worked in the > 1970's and 1980's) were the 40 foot boxcars that were assigned to haul animal > hides from rendering plants to other processing plants. <skip> > > Dan Vandermause > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
