From: Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...>
Reply-To: <STMFC@...>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:09:01 -0400
To: <STMFC@...>
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: SFRD Rr-30 Class Reefers From Athearn - Wheel Report
sighting

Mike Brock wrote:

Keith Jordan writes:

I'm excited that Athearn did this, because it could be a harbinger
of future projects based on "minor" prototypes.

Hmmm. Tongue firmly in cheek...smiling....If one applies the Dave
Nelson/Tim
Gilbert "probability of occurrence" to these cars, one MIGHT be
allowed one
tenth of a car to be on the layout during a month of operating sessions.
OTOH, if one were to...for some reason...model say two days [ as in
May 14
and May 15, 1954 ] AND had proof that 4 of the Rr-30 reefers were in one
train on one of those days in the area modeled...Bingo!...one could
run 4 of
them. No idea what to do about modeling and running the other 2400 or so
cars active on those days in the area of the RR modeled. Not my problem.

SFRD Rr-30 Reefer #37328 was loaded with Bananas northbound on the SOU
between Monroe VA and Pot Yard on September 27th, 1946, but, alas,
#37328 was not equipped with a Preco Floor circulating device. #37328
was part of a forty three car Banana block consisting of 14 reefers
owned by the FGEX/BREX/WFEX group; 11 by PFE; 7 by MDT; 4 by SFRD; 3 by
ART; 2 by URTX; one by the NP; and one indecipherable. This is the only
reporting of a RR-30 in all of my parsings of sundry wheel reports.

Tim Gilbert




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