Ed If I remember recent postings on the N&W list, they too hauled the stuff in open [later tarped] gons. Comments on the list indicated it was a pretty disgusting job just being the switchman that had to add the cars to the train.
Jim Stapleton =============== At 03:47 AM 08/22/2006 +0000, ed_loizeaux wrote: >--- In [email protected], Jamie Bothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've heard tell of the PRR hauling the renderings from >> slaughterhouses around in gondolas. It was basically white semi >> liquid fat from all the animals killed. Supposedly it didn't smell >> too good. Can you imagine? So sometimes even liquids were >> appropriate for gons. > >OK, I'll bite. Who shoveled the stuff out? College kids needing money >for the next semster? Only the Pennsy. Gads....Ed L. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> 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/
