Re: "TW" reefers
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Richard Hendrickson wrote:
The other photo is undated but appears to have been taken at about the sameRichard's detective work is right on the money: the reweigh date is almost certainly the date of transfer to CDLX from PFE, as that is the month and year of the car's sale by PFE. On the issue of when the billboard schemes were disallowed, the ICC set July, 1937 as the date after which no such cars were to be accepted in interchange. That's not to say that all cars lost their paint schemes then, particularly if they were used entirely on a single road. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 http://www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@signaturepress.com Publishers of books on railroads and on Western history
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