Stroh, IN: Pickle Plant

This not only means that the Wabash branch that ended in Stroh was carrying cement, animals, and grain; it was also carrying pickles. I wonder if pickles were grown in greenhouses. I was aware that Indiana did produce farming before refrigerated rail cars became common. But I don't know anything about the produce farming activity in Indiana.

The pickles were shipped in special "vat cars."

Rural American History Captured posted

Pickle Stations in Lagrange and Stroh.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlgchs/pickle_station.jpg