Re: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform

[Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>]

Until the late 1960's it was common practice for several local farmers to get a box car of bagged fertilizer, bagged animal or poultry feed, or even hay. Each farmer came to the team track loading dock and unloaded that part of shipment that was there's. Also another common method of creating a carload was to ship the car as a stop off car. The box car would have products for farmers in several towns. The waybill would have a 1st stop off location. The car was spotted, the contents for the consignee at that town unloaded. The door was closed and sealed and the car released. The car was then moved to a second stop off point for part unloading and then finally moved to its final destination for the rest of the car to be unloaded.
  Bob Stafford

Mike Spinelli <idrsspin_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
  In the Silver Creek area was/is woods and farms. 

Just to the west is Wadsworth, which had several large
industries and a few smaller ones, but they all had
sidings. There were/are several car lots right up the
street, but like you said, there's not enough room to
swing down the side of an automobile boxcar. 

To the east is Norton, which like the Silver Creek
area is woods and farms. 

It was kind of late to be a milk platform, and that
would be on the main anyhow, wouldn't it? Maybe the
farmers bagged their own products and loaded them into
boxcars there. The closest grain mill that I can find
evidence of was 6 miles away in Rittman.

Interesting...

- --- Paul Brezicki wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> The platform appears to be about 5' wide and approx
> 6 carlengths. Obviously there's a ramp on at least
> one end, and an access road that continues between
> the tracks and crosses over the spur somewhere off
> the chart. It's designed for boxcar loading or
> unloading of freight that can be exposed to the
> elements. However it appears to be too narrow for
> vehicles, and is not suitable for LCL which would
> use a covered platform alongside a freighthouse. It
> is an uncommon design. What sort of industries and
> warehouses existed in the Silver Creek area?
> 
> Paul B
> 
> From: Mike Spinelli 
> Subject: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform
> 
> In my ongoing research of Silver Creek, Ohio (and
> it's associated branches), I came across this track
> chart. Never mind where I found them. I won't
> mention where I got them, but a lot of people are
> wrong about their present location.
> 
> The segment shown here
> http://www.or4c.com/pix/SilverCreek.jpg is where the
> Silver Creek Branch once connected with the
> mainline, with the station in between the main and
> the branch. That's all gone by now, but if you look
> there is a track running off of and paralleling the
> WB siding. And between that track and the siding,
> there is a "freight loading platform". 
> 
> What would that have been used for? LCL from
> Baughman Station (down the branch)? If it were a
> team track platform, it would be north of the track,
> not in between them. Would it have been covered? 
> 
> I've never seen this platform (or the track)
> mentioned, or shown on any charts before. I'm
> curious what it was used for.
> 
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