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Circa 1959 a brewery would receive malt and hops most often in plain 40' boxcars -- covered hoppers were just then coming into general use for foodstuffs. "Grain doors" made of wood and heavy paper would be used to keep the grain inside the cars. Unloading at that time would have been done by hand (and shovels) into below-track hoppers at the brewery. A brewery might also receive bottles and cans by plain boxcar inbound. At a later date, corn syrups might be receive by tank car. Outbound loads would consist of ice reefers for keg beer, and insulated plug-door or plain boxcars for bottled and canned beer. Insulated cars would be preferred, but plain cars would do for the summer rush season. Other outbound loads would be "wort" (spent grain from the brewing process) shipped in plain box cars and broken glass (in gondolas). Reefers lettered for the brewery were found, but weren't common. For example, of all of the hundreds of DSDX (Dairy Shippers Dispatch) reefers used by Schlitz, only one was painted and lettered with the Schlitz logo.
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