Post-64 Head End Cars

Fri May 19 19:45:06 EDT 2017

On the Cleveland NKP side, one of our yard crews at E 55th St (usually a 
roustabout) would make a dash to Cleveland Union Terminal to grab a 
carload of berries off of a NYC passenger train for non-stop delivery to 
the Northern Ohio Food Terminal. A crew on a truck or freight platform 
would be waiting to unload and give each man on our crew a pint of 
whatever we had brought to them.

     In addition to the NOFT business, the Wheeling District side ran 
two trains of 30 or so cars a day to the Kroger Warehouse at Solon, OH 
on the Chagrin Falls Branch. Hours of switching using 4 mu'ed ALCo S 
switchers without tight lock couplers left one with pounded kidneys 
after the run.

     WJPowers

On 5/19/2017 1:10 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Evan
>
> There was a slide on ebay several months ago of the eastbound Arrow at 
> Bluefield, 1968, I believe showing a boxcar on the rear.
>
> I know that on occasion, that "hot" refrigerator cars would be put on 
> the rear, like with strawberries to be dropped off at the Kroger 
> warehouse at West Salem. My father worked the Salem Shifter at that 
> time, and they had to wait, usually parked in the middle track until 
> the car was dropped to get it spotted for Kroger to unload and 
> distribute. He told me they would slow the passenger train, the 
> brakeman would turn the angle cock, then pull the pin and let the car 
> drop on its own. It was slow enough the emergency application on the 
> reefer did not bash up the load. The shifter crew always was ready to 
> go retrieve it and get it spotted right away.
>
> Today, nothing comes to the Kroger warehouse by rail.
>
> Ken Miller
>
> On May 19, 2017, at 9:05 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the consist Harry.  I've never heard of boxcars in the 
>> Pocahontas' consist.  Are there any photos of this happening?
>>
>> Also, how frequently were ex-NKP and Wabash cars seen on the 
>> "original" N&W?
>>
>> -Evan Miller
>>
>> On May 17, 2017, at 4:15 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List 
>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>>
>>> Evan:
>>> Here's Radford Division #4 arriving Roanoke July 18, 1970
>>> N&W 518 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -EMD GP9
>>> N&W 519 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  EMD GP9
>>> N&W 1279 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Baggage (ex-NKP)
>>> N&W 1321 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Baggage (BEg)
>>> N&W 1401 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Mail Storage (MS)
>>> N&W 501 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coach (P1)
>>> N&W 1611 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vista-Dome Coach
>>> N&W  538 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coach (P3)
>>> N&W /Sussex County - - - - - - - - - - - /10 Rmtte., 6 DBR Pullman
>>> N&W 400 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Office Car (XO)
>>> It wasn't unusual to see hy-cube box cars in No. 4's consist.  They
>>> were easily identified as Ford "shut down" cars. Seems there were
>>> some tax advantages, so Ford believed in a "just in time" inventory.
>>> Ford parts en route to the Norfolk Plant would arrive in No. 86 at
>>> Portlock and be spotted to be used on the assembly line the same
>>> day. So if a parts car was mishandled or bad ordered, it was
>>> expedited to Norfolk in No. 4 (and maybe No. 26) to avoid shutting
>>> the assembly line down.
>>> At one time, the Norfolk plant got a  new manager and it seems every
>>> Friday, the assembly line would be short a parts car. Ford would fly
>>> the parts in. to avoid a shut down.  It developed that the plant manager
>>> never moved his family from Detroit and he would  get a "freeby" 
>>> flight on
>>> the parts plane. Harry Bundy
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