The end is nigh...

[Charlie B]

I may be building a rendering plant, if I ever get around to building the second level of the layout. I remember reading of gondolas loaded with offal, and what a joy they were to switch - bump into them at too high a speed, and the contents would slosh over the ends.
Wayne

When I first met my wife Mary I learned her father was the supervisor of the local Darling & Co. office. She later told me that when she was just a little girl she went with her dad one night to watch them clean up a wreck. It seems that one of the truck drivers tried to "beat the train" at a small crossing in Rogers, Ohio, and the last trailer was broadsided. (it was the old doubles that had an axle in front and one in the rear, which were common when I was a kid).
She told me the engineer and fireman were sick and there were chicken parts and the accompanying insect larvae all over the place.
I thought for years she had exaggerated the story, until I was painting the Y&S locomotive in Negley and met the old engineer and his fireman at the time and got their more enhanced version of the story, and they also confirmed that the locomotive I was painting was the one that "did the deed". (I started to imagine a strange odor when I got near the locomotive :mrgreen: ).