The article doesn’t say what type of car the ketchup was transported in, but it obviously has to be a boxcar. Don’t know if it’s just a standard boxcar, an insulated boxcar or a reefer? Galesburg is a major hub for BNSF, so the shipper probably depends on them for their shipments.
Frustrated thief breaks into rail car filled with ketchup
Last Updated 4/6/2008 11:25:35 AM
GALESBURG (AP) — Police called to investigate a theft at a private railyard in Galesburg encountered a gory-looking scene when they climbed into the burglarized railcar, but it wasn’t blood. It was ketchup — a lot of ketchup.
The officers were called to the rail parking facility behind the Railroad Refrigeration Services plant Saturday night after an employee found that one railcar had been forced open. But the car wasn’t filled with liquor, prime meat or any of the other usual targets of such thefts. Instead, it was filled with containers of ketchup.
Police said the thief didn’t appear to have stolen any of the ketchup, but had — in apparent frustration — squirted some of it all over the inside of the car.
From my observations, it appears that tomato products that will go to consumers are generally shipped in RBLs and those that go to other processing plants are shipped in XM boxcars (although I used to see much more RBLs that these plants). I have noticed that the percent of boxcars that are XMs seems to be increasing.
I yam not too sure about this news. Before the situation mushrooms out of control and the moderators squash this thread, lettuce not make any corny accusations, as I do not carrot all. You may be leeking information and be out of your gourd. You must know your beans. Time now to beet it.
Anybody who has the poor taste to put ketchup on a hot dog deserves to be transported to Tastee Hastee on Milwaukee Avenue, where he will discover the error of his ways.
Just look for someone ordering lots and lots of fries…
Methinks there must be lots of sticky fingerprints at the crime scene, couldnt they just follow the trail of blood…I mean ketchup, to the would be theives?
An interesting take here. Turns out there are three possible spellings - Ketchup (used my most manufacturers today), catchup, and catsup, which spelling was first used by Jonathon Swift, of Gulliver fame.
