Runaway railroad cars and $ lB/ton feed marked beginning of farmers’ cooperative By JOANNE SPAHE LANCASTER - The af ternoon was running smoothly at the warehouse that day. Two boxcars full of Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. ENGINE SERVICE SALES & SERVICE • Wisconsin 6 to 65 H.P. • Briggs & Stratton 2 to 16 H.P. •Rockford & Twin Disc Clutches and Clutch- Reductions • Large engine and parts inventory • F.M. and Wico magneto service • Wisconsin flywheel alternator service • Complete engine rebuilding 3141 Old Phila. Pike Bird-in-Hand, Pa. 17505 NEW YEAR We at Hershey Equipment Company would like to take time out of this busy holiday season to thank all of you, our customers, for your terrific patronage in the past year. We look forward to serving you even better in the coming year. To all of you we wish a healthy and prosperous new year . From the employees and manage- ment of Hershey Equipment Company Inc . feed were swiftly being unloaded onto the platform and three more were parked temporarily on the nearby siding. Midst the hustle and bustle FISHER g^^mtinas' of work, a tall, slender man emerged from the warehouse and intently headed up the hill to the sided cars. Crawling up the side of the first one, he stationed himself on the footbar and looked out over the roof at the activity before him. Seeing that no one was in his path, he released the brake wheel and confidently rode along as the three weighty wheeled boxes steadily rolled down the incline to the warehouse door. WISCONSIN CD HEAVY DUTY I ENGINES) Judgmg his distance from the building, he changed position to wind up the brake wheel, when, much to his astonishment and fright, he found that the brake was faulty. Instead of slowing down, the three 20-ton cars were quickly picking up momentum. As the building came closer and closer, the man frantically tried to work the brake, but to no avail. In a matter of minutes, the TUT HIBSHEY EQUIPMENT (“I I COMPANY, INC. /s / S Unloading feed from freight cars was a fact of life in the early years of farmers’ cooperatives. heavy boxcars smacked five or six feet, and ramming whole time, the un solidly into the two near the their iron unloading plates warehouse manager warehouse, shoving them into the side of the building. (Turn to Page 72) Lancaster Fai mmg, Saturday, December 31,1977 SYCAMORE IND. PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER. PA. 17603 (717) 393-5807 Route 30 West at the Centerville Exit 69
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