Re: shipping fruit on railroad branches
| February 14, 2019 04:30PM |
While there wouldn't be temperature extremes in the stock vs a box car sitting in the hot sun, it might also have had to do with stock cars being a very "seasonal use" type of car... meaning that during certain seasons, they just laid around.
I think coal was occaisonally loaded in stock cars back in the day on the D&RG.
Today, food safety people would frown upon loading fruit in a stock car for obvious reasons
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I think coal was occaisonally loaded in stock cars back in the day on the D&RG.
Today, food safety people would frown upon loading fruit in a stock car for obvious reasons
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heatermason | February 14, 2019 02:02PM |
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John K | February 14, 2019 04:30PM |
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bcp | February 14, 2019 07:13PM |
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