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(erielack) Re: Refrigerator cars at Wadsworth's Ohio Match

As a Wadsworth native, I can tell you that yes, refrigerator cars were used 
at "The Match" to ship Ohio Blue Tip matches.  In the 70's, when I was a 
teen who passed the Match on a daily basis, it was not at all uncommon to 
see orange refrigerator cars spotted at the docks.

The other industries mentioned would not have used these cars.  The Bearfoot 
Sole (note the correct spelling here- WHS is "Home of the Grizzlies") 
received coal inbound for a time, as did its predecessors, but did not ship 
outbound.  "The Brickyard" used damage-control boxcars, but not 
refrigerators, to ship the fragile bricks and tiles.  IMC received inbound 
covered hopperes of various chemicals and such, and shipped out by truck.

Remember too, that The Match was bought by Hunt Wesson Foods in 1958.  By 
the early 60's they were using surplus factory space as warehouse space. 
That might also account for the URTX cars.

Joe Mayer
ELHS 702

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>Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:26:59 -0500
>From: "Stephen Twarogowski" <stwarogowski_@_gmail.com>
>Subject: (erielack) Empty Car Routing

>All,



>I know the routing of empties has been discussed on the list quite a bit. 
>I
>found a document on a PC oriented website that might be of interest to 
>some.



>http://www.unlikelypcrr.com/page4/page4.html



>The two files addressing the issue are "Northeast Region Car Guide" and
>"Empty General Service Car Routing".  They are generally the same file, one
>has a few more pages.  And while these are PC files specifically, the
>overall theme applies to conversations we have had on the list.


>There is some specific EL content in here as there are some junctions
>discussed (Maybrook is noted).  But there is one thing even more specific 
>to
>the EL in here which I found quite peculiar.  Perhaps Steve Timko can help
>us out.  In the "Northeast Region Car Guide" file, page 13 of the pdf file,
>page 12 of the document, the routing of empty URTX refrigerator cars is
>established.  As they are broken down by numbering class I noticed that 
>URTX
>27064-27067 are to be routed empty to the EL at Wadsworth.  My ORER shows
>these as RBL type with "DF Loading devices having 9 rows perforated wall
>angles".  Crossing this with my industry list for Wadsworth, I don't see a
>shipper to logically match this car with.  The only thing I can think is
>that Ohio Match shipped matches in climate controlled cars to protect the
>zinc on the matches?  But I'm not a chemist and I am likely way off the
>mark.  The other shippers in Wadsworth included Barefoot Sole, General
>Wadsworth Brick and Tile, and IMC.  Checking the consists for trains with 
>an
>Akron block I didn't see any routing of URTX cars to Wadsworth.  Anyone 
>have
>any thoughts on this?



>Thanks,
>Steve





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