And speaking of duck/goose/waterfowl decoys.
When I was much younger, we had a ranch in ND.  When we bought it there 
were a couple dozen old refrigerator railroad cars there, sans wheels 
and stuff.  They were insulated and you  put the blocks of ice in on the 
top openings.  You could pretty much put thirty or forty big blocks of 
ice in there, ten from each opening.  The overhead supports for the ice 
ran down the walls, sloping toward the middle of the car so the ice slid 
down to the middle.
These were the days when a kid knew every railroad car and it's type, 
tonnage and railroad logo.  And the old wooden cars were everywhere 
then.  We used to watch the Big Boys bringing the wheat harvest up the 
slope and across western North Dakota.  Two of them on each train.  
Wheat headed for the ports in Superior and Duluth.

Anyhow........all that cold was in there, along with swinging beef, 
courtesy of the insulation, which was SIX INCH thick cork inside the 
walls.  SIX INCH!!!  Man, that was an old decoy carver's heaven on 
earth.  When we scrapped one car a fellow actually paid for all the 
cork, and there was a huge pile of it.....tons actually.  Each block was 
about 2 feet by four feet by six inches thick.  Don't remember what held 
it all together but is was sure waterproof.

Dream on that, you decoy men!!

Like they say, hindsight is 20-20....



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