Andre and other 1:1 guys might get a kick out of this. The Houston Belt
and Terminal, served a Nabisco bakery bringing in covered hoppers of
flour routinely. It was normally switched at night. I was on assignment
photographing a corporate brochure for the RR. On Monday morning I was
scheduled to photograph the various suits in the different departments
at the old Union Station (now part of Minute Maid Field where our last
place Astros are finishing a terrible year). The early morning
discussion was about one of the crews putting their engine through the
back wall of the building that Sunday evening--again!
Apparently this had happened several times in the past. The engineer
was an old head and the immediate drug test was passed by everyone.
In the afternoon, I was over at the HB&T's roundhouse dealing with that
crew and track maintenance guys. A rather sorry looking SW-1200 was in
one stall. It looked like a brass engine that had been dropped on end
with some vital parts tucked under and twisted. Several of the crew
were gathered around. I then made the comment that it smelled like
fresh baked cookies. I was met with some very cold stares, so I shut up
and got back to work. I was told not to shoot that engine!
Another incident happened on some old MKT trackage. Apparently another
industry received their hoppers and unloaded directly from a team
track. My understanding was the loaded car was too much for the rotten
ties, so the car simply turned over the rails and was on the ground
without turning a wheel.
For S scale content, I've seen a airslide type hopper (RR first car if I
recall correctly) apparently unloading food product on a former
passenger car track at Union Station. The crew set the car under a
freeway overpass to either help the customer's employees keep cool or to
shelter from rain. A vehicle then pulled up, they hooked up some hoses
to the discharge lines and transferred product to the truck, so a big
unloaded facility wasn't needed in this case.
Bob Werre
Bob Werre
> Hi All:
>
>
> KC's Sunshine Biscuit is slated to be represented on my layout. I was too
> small to recall specifics of what industry received what kind of
> inbounds/etc. Soo... I'm attempting to fill in the blanks.
>
> Seeing that all sorts of crackers (like the Hi-Ho cracker), etc, was
> mfg'd
> at Sunshine Biscuits, is it safe to assume the following inbound products:
>
> * Grain products. (Flour, wheat, etc.)
> * Cooking oil. (Vegetable oil.)
> * Various other dry indgrediants. (Salt, sugar, baking soda, etc.)
> * Packaging supplies. (Boxes, etc.)
>
> So, some questions among the knowlegable:
>
>
> Even thought hiway trucks are really struggling to have business on my
> version of the West Bottoms. :-) I guess in the case of the fragile
> nature
> of crackers, I think it's safe to assume that the finished crackers were
> shipped locally/regionally in trucks.
>
> Ming The Merciless
> aka Andre Ming
>
>
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