Hello
Im looking for companies that received woodflour in boxcars mostly non bagged woodflour.
Thank you
kh25 Hello Im looking for companies that received woodflour in boxcars mostly non bagged woodflour. Thank you
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What period are you modeling? Loose powder lading in box cars was a pre-WWII phenomenon that went away with improved hopper seals in covered hoppers while steam was still rolling along.
As for who might receive wood flour in bulk, I would imagine the people who repackage it for the retail trade and the people who manufacture wood filler products like Plastic Wood. Also places where it's mixed into concrete or fiberglas products that contain it. By separating the words into wood flour I was able to find several such on Google, including a couple which, earlier in their history, might have received the product loose in 36 foot paper-lined wood body box cars.
I know my prototype sawmill never produced wood flour. The closest they came was coarse-blade sawdust, burned under a boiler to provide steam for plant machinery.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Thank you for the info. My interest in woodflour started with a company in Winchester NH called woodflour Inc. They received bulk sawdust, rags ,wood heel scraps in boxcars up until 1981 or 82. They manufactured woodflour that they loaded into BM 40ft boxcars using pipes to blow it into the boxcars. Then shipped it out. What I have learned is that some cars went to Hercules Powder in NJ for use in making dynamite.
I also learned woodflour is a main ingredient in linoleum along with linseed oil, cork dust, burlap and pigments sometimes limestone.
So I think I will be modeling a linoleum factory 1960s to early 70s