RE: (erielack) Re: (erielack )Marion Ice house/Yard

[Bradley Butcher <llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com>]

Well I will come back with what I have found out. The ice house still appears on the Conrail ZTS map from 1984 so Obviously the building survived for a long while. Most likely one of those cases where it cost money to tear down and was easier to leave alone since no one was beating the door down for the land. Surprising is one of the responses I did get seems to indicate that the ice house was made of wood. Since I'm a youngen born in 1972 the only ice house I have seen personally was the old Union Pacific one in Council Bluffs. Which was a very large concrete or plastered over brick structure.
 
I would surmise reading the diamonds that discuss meat and produce traffic and the decline thereof, plus Kalmbach publishing material refering to the rise of the Air conditioned refer that most likely the ice house was just a fixture after 1972, possible a few years sooner then that.
 
> List;
> 
> I'd like to point to this topic, and the low responses as good proof that we do
> need to pursue getting those folks who have good factual information and stories to step
> forward and have them documented while we still have that opportunity to do so.
> 
> Marion yard information, from the EL era and especially before just seems to be so
> hard to come by. For such a big, and once vitally important point on the system,
> I've yet to find anyone who worked there for long, and can help with detailed
> questions. 
> 
> Diagrams and photos while certainly a tremendous help, can only take us
> so far. And often, they themselves serve to bring up even more questions which a
> veteran employee who worked there on a daily basis may be able to answer.
> 
> This has been my 2 cents worth...
> 
> Terry Miliczky
 		 	   		  

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