Greg, Attached is the requested PGE page 228 from the 4/47 ORER. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Folks, Virtual PRR Day May 15, 2021 The PRR T&HS is planning a virtual PRR Day on May 15, 2021, through zoom. Thanks to Auburn University, we will be able to host

ok its getting more clear now at least 3 different scenarios mentioned... if a string of express reefers all needed icing they could be done together in a bunch if an individual car needed pre icing

Found this statement on TMR Distributing's web site: APRIL 2021 - DETAIL ASSOCIATES ANNOUNCED SOME MORE PRICE INCREASES AND OR PACKAGE QUANTITY CHANGES ON MANY OF THEIR PARTS. SOME ITEMS THAT HAVE

What has happened to Detail Associates? I have had freight car, passenger car, and diesel parts on back order with Walther's for an awful long time. Has Detail Associates closed and I missed the memo?

Don’t forget that many/most “larger” passenger stations would need ice for passenger car A/C (obviously depending on whether cars that used ice AC would, or could, pass thru and need it at that

George Eichelberger wrote: Do you mean beyond what is listed in the Lane article? He gives quite complete-looking tables of “allocated” vs. “received” USRA cars. Do you have info beyond what

There was a small ice house at the south end of the platforms, beyond the express facility, at Wichita Union Station. It was probably there for the purpose of icing passenger cars as needed. There

Eric, Interesting that the Western Pacific was not assigned any USRA freight cars. The USRA did mess with the WP though. The USRA forced the WP to take 5 USRA light 2-8-2s, series (1st) 321-325, in

The IC contracted with Central Illinois Public Services to provide their ice plants in Southern Illinois. In Centralia IL they had a large ice plant and platform about 3 miles South of the

Todd Sullivan wrote: Well described, Todd. The major exception to your description was in certain early-season shipments when entire trains of express reefers were moved over the railroad. In that

Bill, As Tony Thompson indicated, if in a passenger train and loaded, they would be iced by an ice truck with a lift body while still in the train. That was to save the time of cutting the express

would they ever have been iced along with ordinary reefers?

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Thanks for providing these answers, even though I didn't ask the question. I have an F&C X29B and an X29D, along with an X26C, partially built on the bench. I like to do more than one at a time of

it depends -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

You are welcome, Mike! Elden Gatwood

Eric: I just scanned a memo that mentioned the DL&W was refusing 5,000 (!) USRA freight cars. This may explain why I see “errors” in USRA car quantities. Some may be “allocated”, other never

Thanks for sharing that correspondence, Ike. I suspect there were similar letters from other lines. I know the Nickel Plate refused their USRA double-sheathed boxcar assignments and the Lehigh Valley

Wasn't USRA's John Skelton Williams a major figure in the competitor Seaboard Air Line Railroad? If so, that would have added fuel to the fire. Ken Montero