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Satellite, it has been replaced by a car repair shop)
Some general notes on icing platforms
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Does anyone know where this icing station would have been for IHB. This is a WW2 photo. Thanks!
[Some comments talk about what it was like to work in the ice house.
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The chute is lowered and the ice poured down from the platform above.] |
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HS House Camping posted
January 1943. Riverdale, Illinois. "Blue Island Yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad with view of the icing platform." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
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HS House Camping posted
January 1943. "Icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Blue Island Yard south of Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
Mike Breski shared
Tom Siniawski: Ice house was still up and running when I hired on the IHB IN 1970. Frank Hall: I took some pictures of it in 1974 for high school project. I will See if I can find them. I also have some of the timbers from the old stock yard holding up my house. My dad drug them home in his pickup truck. Think they are 16 ft long 10"×20" timbers |
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HS House Camping posted
January 1943. Blue Island, Illinois. "Inside the ice storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad near Chicago. It has a storage capacity of almost 15,000 tons." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information
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Mike Girdwain commented on Joseph's share
Ice House on Wolf Lake near Calumet City Illinois. |
The following photos are WWII Jack Delano photos from
Lot 222.
We think of the railroads having to keep produce cool in the Summer. But they also had to keep it from freezing in the Winter. The gas holder in the background confirms this photo was taken in the Blue Island Yard.
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Placing charcoal heaters in a refrigerator car of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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Heaters on the platform of the icing station of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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Refrigerator cars waiting to be iced at the icing station of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The little carts on the platform are used for carrying the crushed ice up and down the platform and dumping it down the chutes into the cans
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At the icing platform the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The chute is lowered and the ice poured down from the platform above.
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Icing a car at the icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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Icing a car at the icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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The icing station of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The brick building on the left is the icing plant
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The icing station of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The brick building on the left is the icing plant
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The icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt RailroadA cool Jack Delano pic from the icing platform of the IHB Icehouse . |
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Inside the ice storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. It has a storage capacity of almost 15,000 tons
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Block of ice being sent up an elevator into the storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt RailroadA block of ice being sent up an elevator into the storehouse of the IHB icehouse, from 1943 taken by Jack Delano. Tom Siniawski: I worked at the old rip starting in 1970 and was told they weighed 400. Place was still in operation.
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Inside the ice storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. It has a storage capacity of almost 15,000 tonsInside the ice storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. It has a storage capacity of almost 15,000 tons - January 1943 - Jack Delano photo
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Candy Lachman Birkenfeld posted
IHB photo
Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The train goes off to the icehouse as the caboose is cut off and goes down a siding to the yard office[On the left background is the yard tower.] |
Update: I didn't have all of Jack's photos.
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Michael Brandt posted
A picture of the IHB icehouse from 1943 taken by Jack Delano. |
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An interesting 1950's video from the AT&SF about their Refrigerator Cars.
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You can skip to 1m:57s if you want to skip the "Happy" part.
• 3:52, inside of refer car.
• 6:50, loading stations.
• 14:00, Bakersfield icing facility.
• 16:58, Needles re-icing.
• 17:30, Selling in-transit.
• 19:10, Argentine KS “Automated Classification” Yard
I've also read that the ice properties had to be customized for what was being shipped in the car. Basically, you could get higher vs lower moisture or temperature by changing the salt level of the ice, and by using varying proportions of blocked vs crushed ice. Each car had "icing instructions" that were part of the train's manifest. This is roughly equivalent to the "moisture control" on the refrigerator at home.
Too bad the railroads lost this traffic. It was quite profitable.
The information told by you is important.
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