St. L&A and Safe Handling helping Katrina victims

Article in today's Portland Press Herald:

Train lined up to help food bank send aid south

AUBURN, MAINE — Two railroad cars loaded with 200,000 pounds of food, water and supplies will pull out from a warehouse Monday, destined for the Gulf Coast to help hurricane victims.

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Very cool that they did this. One of the guys in our company, his father in law owns a water business and we were able to get a skid of water from them, and deliver it to SHI at the last minute - Bob Drake got it on the boxcar before it was totally loaded (thanks to them for letting us sneak that water on board!).

That was a really cool thing that they did - who ever would have thought of that??!!

One wonders how long the loads would take to get to New Orleans if they were headed south via Guilford. Probably a week just to get from Danville Junction to Selkirk.