05-29-2013, 06:41 PM
kamerad47 Wrote:It amaze me that those bulk products where not shipped by rail!!!!!
Kamerad47,
Bulk eggs were shipped in stainless steel tankers from cracking plants in southern Indiana to our northern Michigan facility. These tankers were loaded at 32 degrees and would rise no more than two degrees in 30 hours with very few stops on the way. Attempting to load a large rail tanker and then get it moving north into Michigan and then uncoupled down state somewhere, then placed on a secondary railroad for the trip to the facility would take several hours longer. Also, the secondary railroad was headquartered fifty miles south of the Sara Lee plant.
Flour came primarily from mills in southern Michigan and corn syrup was off loaded from Class 1 rail tank cars, also in southern Michigan and pumped into stainless tankers and trucked up to the northern Michigan facility.