As Jim points out the final use of the Milwaukee cars is rather sad but
not as bad as being sent into hide service, as we've talked about
before. Locally, until the sugar mill was closed in the city of--what
else Sugar Land, Texas, the MP/UP shipped in sugar cane daily. They
were using dedicated former Railbox modern style cars (DesPlains cars)
but they found out they were rapidly falling apart because of the acid
in the sugar (your Mom was right!) rusting away the lower area of the
cars. They much preferred the older wooden cars from long ago.
Bob Werre
> One aspect sometimes missed was use of older cars for the "back side"
> of food processing.... 40' Milwaukee Road Rib Side box cars lasted
> into the late 80's (maybe beyond?) hauling spent grains from breweries
> and processing plants in the upper Midwest. Milwaukee Road's "Beer
> Line" in their home city was trafficked predominantly by ancient 40'
> box cars with Kraft paper grain doors hauling spent malt, corn and
> other grains from the Schlitz and Pabst breweries to a location about
> 90 miles west for blending into animal feed.
>
> Those cars were about ready to fall apart but the bankrupt railroad
> kept squeezing the miles out of them. Since the route did not require
> interchange many were well beyond the interchange age limit.
>
> Jim Kindraka
>
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>
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