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From: Mike Oravec MOEL AT paonline DOT com
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:19:46 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie and Lackawanna stock cars
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One more thing.....the drovers better not be throwing dead birds into
the reservoir at Elmhurst either :-) .

MIke O.


Ronald wrote:
>
> Walt et al,
>
> In the report I have from the Live Poultry Shippers Association they
> talk of the shipment from Buffalo to Hoboken. The DL&W used to add a
> drovers car in Buffalo if there were three or more poultry cars in the
> train. The shippers would complain and stated that "they (keepers)
> would spend too much time there at the expense of their duties". The
> DL&W cited New York State regs that required this accomodation for the
> keepers. Aparrantly each state had their own regs. The keepers must
> have yelled "HEE YAAH" when they arrived at Buffalo and got their own
> car. The smell in those keeper's compartments on the poultry cars must
> have been terrible. I'm sure the DL&W crews didn't want those guys
> traveling in their cabooses.
>
> Ron Dukarm
>
>


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