Do You Remember the Largest Shipment of Berries to Move from 
Tangipahoa?  Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Martin L. Varisco, Jr., Apr. 2003

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Published in the Hammond Vindicator on:  March 20, 1969

      The heaviest train of strawberries ever to move out of the 
Florida Parishes was a 40-car load which was
shipped north on April 20, 1942.
       At that time the Illinois Central Railroad only allowed 35 cars 
to be moved at a time.  Five of the 40 were
dropped off at McComb, Mississippi, just a short way up the line.
       The peak day's movement of berries in the history of the 
industry was in April 27, 1931, when IC handled
191 cars, more than half the amount shipped during the entire season last year.
       The biggest year's movement was in 1931, when 4,744 carlot 
units were moved.  The second biggest was
1937, when 3,315 cars headed North from the parish.