Covered Hoppers

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Leas and McVitty was not technically a meat processor, it was a 
tannery. And  those gons did stink, as did the whole place, you could 
tell driving a block away.  The Salem Shifter crew used to park and eat 
lunch there, for some reason of which I am yet to understand.

Ken Miller
On Mar 19, 2006, at 11:51 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> Abram - remember Leas and McVitty in Salem - the meat processors?  At 

> one time they shipped tankage in gons - even viler than your stinking 

> stuff.  I knew a brakeman who was going over the tops of a cut in 

> Roanoke Yard and jumped off the top of a hopper into what he thought 

> was a gon loaded with sand.

>  

> WRONG!

>  

> The crew had to hose him off before anybody'd let him get close to 

> them.

>  

> EdKing

>>  

>>  But it was a huge mud slick of that putrid-smelling ooze.  Both feet 

>> went out from under me and I took a painful landing directly on my 

>> derriere with a concussion sufficient to turn one's backbone 

>> into shards and fragments.  I have never seen so many stars in my 

>> life.  Then I discovered that the viscous mud had me virtually glued 

>> to the ground.  Fortunately we were on the way home, as I don't think 

>> I could have endured working an entire tour of duty coverd with that 

>> vile, stinking stuff !

>>  

>> -- abram burnett