This waybill continues the documentation of the August 29, 1962 shipments to the Ahnapee & Western at Casco Junction. It was scanned from the A&W Waybill Collection by Andy Laurent. The waybill describes a shipment of coal from Coal City Indiana to Evangeline Milk Co. in Sturgeon Bay:
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This waybill is nearly identical to the one described in detail in this post (http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-prototype-waybill-28.html). The shipper, consignee, route, commodity, waybill form, formatting, stamps, and typeface are all similar. So for this post, rather than provide a repetitive discussion of the material from a previous post, we thought we would focus on the freight car used for the shipment and on the profile of the rail deliveries to Evangeline Milk Co.
The Car:
The car is NYC 869343, a two-bay open top hopper car. In the January 1958 ORER the NYC listed 1,982 Steel, Self-Clearing HM hoppers in NYC 868000 to 869999. The dimensional data were:
IL 31' 6"
IW 10' 4"
OL 32' 6"
EW 10' 5"
EH 11'
Capy 2210 cu. ft. 110,000 lbs.
Two thousand of these hoppers were built by DSI for the NYC in 1948 under lot 769-H (http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT2.htm#L107; scroll about half way down, or search on the page by lot number). There is also a builders photo here (http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/nyc-868000.jpg). In the modeler's notes Kadee 7001 is suggested as a reasonably accurate model with the note that the "NYC car was taller and shorter than the model" and that there are some differences in the side panels (http://www.kadee.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=652). In STMFC message 79009 Gene Green mentioned that some cars in this series had Klasing handbrakes.
What did Evangeline Milk Co. receive by rail?
During the period June 27, 1962 through August 29, 1962 inclusive, Evangeline Milk received rail shipments of three commodities:
This waybill is nearly identical to the one described in detail in this post (http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-prototype-waybill-28.html). The shipper, consignee, route, commodity, waybill form, formatting, stamps, and typeface are all similar. So for this post, rather than provide a repetitive discussion of the material from a previous post, we thought we would focus on the freight car used for the shipment and on the profile of the rail deliveries to Evangeline Milk Co.
The Car:
The car is NYC 869343, a two-bay open top hopper car. In the January 1958 ORER the NYC listed 1,982 Steel, Self-Clearing HM hoppers in NYC 868000 to 869999. The dimensional data were:
IL 31' 6"
IW 10' 4"
OL 32' 6"
EW 10' 5"
EH 11'
Capy 2210 cu. ft. 110,000 lbs.
Two thousand of these hoppers were built by DSI for the NYC in 1948 under lot 769-H (http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT2.htm#L107; scroll about half way down, or search on the page by lot number). There is also a builders photo here (http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/nyc-868000.jpg). In the modeler's notes Kadee 7001 is suggested as a reasonably accurate model with the note that the "NYC car was taller and shorter than the model" and that there are some differences in the side panels (http://www.kadee.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=652). In STMFC message 79009 Gene Green mentioned that some cars in this series had Klasing handbrakes.
What did Evangeline Milk Co. receive by rail?
During the period June 27, 1962 through August 29, 1962 inclusive, Evangeline Milk received rail shipments of three commodities:
- coal (ICC Commodity Class 305; Bituminous Coal)
- metal cans (ICC Commodity Class 779: Containers, Metal)
- cardboard boxes (ICC Commodity Class 783; Containers, Fibreboard and Paperboard KD)
These were the coal shipments:
| ID | Shipper | From | OLHC | Car | Date |
| 10 | Peabody Coal Co. | Bixby Ky. | IC | IC 93226 | 06/29/62 |
| 27 | Peabody Coal Co. | Bixby Ky. | IC | IC 69152 | 07/02/62 |
| 58 | Nashville Coal Co. | Fies Ky. | IC | DH 6224 | 07/06/62 |
| 126 | Cardinal Fuel & Supply Co. | McClure Ky. | LN | LN 68608 | 07/20/62 |
| 156 | Cardinal Fuel & Supply Co. | McClure Ky. | LN | LN 119051 | 07/25/62 |
| 172 | Cardinal Fuel & Supply Co. | McClure Ky. | LN | LN 84642 | 07/27/62 |
| 200 | Cardinal Fuel & Supply Co. | McClure Ky. | LN | LN 118268 | 08/01/62 |
| 229 | Cardinal Fuel & Supply Co. | McClure Ky. | LN | LN 71689 | 08/06/62 |
| 250 | Peabody Coal Co. | Coal City Ind. | NYC | NYC 876129 | 08/10/62 |
| 270 | Peabody Coal Co. | Coal City Ind. | NYC | NYC 877883 | 08/15/62 |
| 283 | Peabody Coal Co. | Coal City Ind. | NYC | NYC 879017 | 08/17/62 |
| PW28 | Peabody Coal Co. | Coal City Ind. | NYC | NYC 863977 | 08/27/62 |
| PW36 | Peabody Coal Co. | Coal City Ind. | NYC | NYC 869343 | 08/29/62 |
The column marked ID contains either the row number from the table Andy prepared for the GBW pages (http://www.greenbayroute.com/1962ahwwaybills.htm) or the post number if the documentation was from a blog post (i.e., PW28 is Prototype Waybill post #28 and PW36 is Prototype Waybill post #36, this post). There were 13 coal shipments to Evangeline during this 63-day period, about 1 every 5 days although it should be noted that the shipments came in irregular clumps. 4 shippers served by three different carriers are represented. As we continue on to evaluate more waybills I'll be interested in finding out whether Evangeline cycled through a selected set of shippers or settled in on a preferred supplier. Also note that in every case but one (the third entry in the table) the car for the shipment was a home road car. It's interesting to me that a modeler of northern Wisconsin would need to roster IC, L&N, and NYC hoppers (and that's just to serve this industry; during the same time period there were coals shipments in C&O and MILW hoppers).
These were the metal can shipments:
| ID | Shipper | From | OLHC | Car | Date |
| 11 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | CNW 21084 | 06/29/62 |
| 28 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | NP 8312 | 07/02/62 |
| 29 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | CNW 8705 | 07/02/62 |
| 59 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 48000 | 07/06/62 |
| 66 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | EL 73448 | 07/09/62 |
| 78 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 48394 | 07/11/62 |
| 101 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 46988 | 07/16/62 |
| 113 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 46628 | 07/18/62 |
| 127 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 46282 | 07/20/62 |
| 137 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | PLE 20873 | 07/23/62 |
| 173 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 136194 | 07/27/62 |
| 188 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 48314 | 07/30/62 |
| 214 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | CNW 20226 | 08/02/62 |
| 230 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 136126 | 08/06/62 |
| 249 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 137634 | 08/10/62 |
| 260 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | EL 73409 | 08/13/62 |
| 271 | Phelps Can Co. | Weirton, W.Va. | PRR | PRR 22579 | 08/15/62 |
| 289 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | UP 104219 | 08/20/62 |
| 290 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 2206 | 08/20/62 |
| 323 | Phelps Can Co. | Burlington Wisc. | SOO | SOO 45526 | 08/27/62 |
There were 20 shipments of metal cans, or about 1 every three days. All but one of the shipments were from the Phelps plant in Burlington, Wisc. which was served by the Soo Line. The Phelps plant in Burlington was acquired from Nestle by Phelps in December 1959 and began production of 14.5 ounce milk cans for 5 milk plants including Evangeline Milk Co. (after 1959 baby cans were still produced in Weirton by Phelps, which accounts for the single shipment during this period that originated on the PRR). The Burlington plant closed in August 1965 (about a year and a half after Evangeline shut down) and was sold back to Nestle. This is a photo of that facility taken in 1949:
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Home road boxcars were used for the Burlington Phelps shipments more than half of the time. The other shipments were in what appears to be randomly selected cars; it did not appear that the SOO Agent in Burlington was overly concerned with the AAR Car Selection process.
Home road boxcars were used for the Burlington Phelps shipments more than half of the time. The other shipments were in what appears to be randomly selected cars; it did not appear that the SOO Agent in Burlington was overly concerned with the AAR Car Selection process.
These were the cardboard box shipments:
| ID | Shipper | From | OLHC | Car | Date |
| 268 | Mead Packaging Co. | Lawrence Mass. | BM | BCK 2345 | 08/15/62 |
| 282 | Mead Packaging Co. | Lawrence Mass. | BM | ATSF 276647 | 08/17/62 |
There were two shipments, or about one every 30 days. Note that they came in a clump near the middle of the time period, two shipments separated by only a couple of days.
Where did the product go?
The A&W collection only captures terminating waybills, so we have no direct evidence for the frequencies or destinations of rail shipments outbound from Evangeline Milk Co. Andy does have some company newsletters from First National Stores (Evangeline's parent company, a grocery chain in the Boston area), and they describe both the manufacturing process at the plant, and some details including the routing of milk from Sturgeon Bay. All the evaporated milk from the plant was shipped to First National Stores ("FINAST" brand). Their warehouses were in Providence, RI and Somerville, Mass. Route: AW-KGBW-C&O-NKP-DLW-NYO&W-NH for the Providence destination, taking 6 days. Casco Cheese Company on the A&W was also owned by First National Stores, and sold 80% of their product to the Massachusetts chain as well.
With respect to the Port of Milwaukee, data from Schenker (The Port of Milwaukee) suggest that a lot of evaporated and condensed milk from Wisconsin was shipped by car ferry to eastern destinations, and a lot was exported to Europe (of which some almost certainly entered the Port by rail).
With respect to the Port of Milwaukee, data from Schenker (The Port of Milwaukee) suggest that a lot of evaporated and condensed milk from Wisconsin was shipped by car ferry to eastern destinations, and a lot was exported to Europe (of which some almost certainly entered the Port by rail).
Charles Hostetler and Andy Laurent