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

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Joe,
 
We always used to use Ohio Blue Tip matches. Are they still producing the  
matches there in Wadsworth? Thanks.
 
Rick Fleischer
 
 
In a message dated 12/9/2010 5:20:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jmayer_@_insight.rr.com writes:

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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