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Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--June 27, 2013 (C2906 thru C2910) -- poultry cars
I recall poultry cars coming through Scranton on the DL&W fairly often. I'm
guessing that was about 1940.
What impressed my 11 year old eyes most was the number of dead chickens
among the live ones!
Chuck Y
Boulder CO
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Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--June 27, 2013 (C2906 thru
C2910) -- poultry cars
> All three of the C2908, 09 and 10, plates show Live Poultry Transit cars
> in more detail than I can recall in any other source. The LPTCo. was the
> Pullman Company of poultry business. There are builder's photos around
> shot from the ground, and a few distant images showing them in trains.
> But these images would be of interest to a larger community.
>
> In the old Railroad Man's magazines there are some true-tales and fiction
> stories that take place around the movement of chickens that lead one to
> believe this commodity was more common than it actually was in the 20th
> Century.
>
> Today's tractor-trailers hauling live chickens aren't a whole lot
> different than the LPTCo railcars pictured here.
>
> It's all "poultry in motion" ; ...Mike Del
> Vecchio
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: McKnight, Richard <pat_mcknight_@_nps.gov>
>
> To: EL Mail List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>
> Sent: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 6:41 am
>
> Subject: (erielack) Steamtown Images--June 27, 2013 (C2906 thru C2910)
>
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> C2906.jpg (image/jpeg, 2528x2024 827008 bytes, BF: 6.19 ppb)
> C2907.jpg (image/jpeg, 2576x2028 965477 bytes, BF: 5.41 ppb)
> C2908.jpg (image/jpeg, 2528x2024 791521 bytes, BF: 6.46 ppb)
> C2909.jpg (image/jpeg, 2576x2046 776618 bytes, BF: 6.79 ppb)
> C2910.jpg (image/jpeg, 2041x2568 862594 bytes, BF: 6.08 ppb)
>
> Hello,
>
> Please find attached the following negatives:
>
> C2906--Location unknown--Farm scene [1915.08.26]
> C2907--Location unknown--Farm scene [1915.08.26]
> C2908--Hoboken, NJ--Lower yard with Grove Street tower [1915.09.02]
> C2909--Hoboken, NJ--Lower yard with Grove Street tower [1915.09.02]
> C2910--Location unknown--Poultry car [1915.09.02]
>
> If you have any additional comments on any of these images, let me know
> and
> I will update our database. Also, if any of you would like to assist with
> scanning (and are in the Scranton area) I am always happy to sign up new
> volunteers.
>
> --Patrick McKnight
> Historian/Archivist
> Steamtown NHS
> 150 S. Washington Avenue
> Scranton, PA
>
> Phone: 570-340-5193
> Cell: 570-862-6321
> FAX: 570-340-5222
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