DCHP-3

cook car

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mobile cookhouse used by threshing crews, cat-swing crews, and other workers.

Quotations

1922
So the threshing season wore on. We ate in a cook-car, slept in a "caboose," and worked from dawn until dark. Sometimes, to finish a "set" we would bum a straw pile and work by its light. . . .
1956
There would be either a sleeping car or a big stove-heated tent for the men to sleep in and the cook car to take care of their bodily needs.
1964
A cook car and two wagon loads of lumber . . . followed.