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Re: West India Fruit & Steamship Company Historic Film
The West India Fruit & Steamship Company had boxcars and refrigerator cars in its fleet. In addition to the traffic between the Port of Palm Beach and Havana, the company also ferried freight cars to New Orleans. By the middle 1950s, up to eighty railroad cars each way per day were being transferred between the United States and Cuba. Inbound freight to the U.S. included tobacco, refined sugar, pineapples, rum, tomatoes, slaughterhouse byproducts, and scrap metal. Cuban bound freight included less-than-carload merchandise, manufactured goods, chemicals, lard, railway equipment, temperate zone fruit such as apples, pears, and grapes, meat, dairy, steel products, and machinery. These cars traveled all over. Here are photos of boxcars WIF 321 and WIF 106 in Vancouver, British Columbia: And more research determined their freight cars did indeed travel to Southern California. I even found a photograph of one of their cars in Los Angeles at a Southern Pacific yard: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20988463 The boxcar (WIF 233) is just behind the two tank cars. Also notice the Canadian Pacific eight-hatch meat reefer (CP 283285) to the right. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: West India Fruit & Steamship Company Historic Film
John Barry
Speculation on: Apples, cherries, and other tree fruits that need a winter frost. Canned goods that needed insulation from heat or cold enroute. Speculation off. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736 On Sunday, December 15, 2019, 1:32:14 AM EST, mel perry <clipper841@...> wrote: a pfe reefer to cuba at 10:45, wonder what was being exported? mel perry
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 10:06 PM Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: West India Fruit & Steamship Company Historic Film
mel perry
a pfe reefer to cuba at 10:45, wonder what was being exported? mel perry
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 10:06 PM Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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West India Fruit & Steamship Company Historic Film
West India Fruit & Steamship Company Historic Film Railroad coverage starts about four minutes into the film. The film appears to end without full coverage of exports to the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLO0qNmSZ7s Description: "This is a short film about the West India Fruit and Steamship Company based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. It was made as a promotional film for the company I believe in the 1950's. The company was created by my cousin, Daniel E. Taylor and his three brothers from Sea Level, NC. They went on into business and needed a way to ship their products to and from Cuba. There are several shots of Jacksonville area." Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Armour & Company Reefer 8644
Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...>
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 02:22 PM, Bob Chaparro wrote:
Didn't even bother to drop them to the ground and haul them off, so it seems this reefer was prepared to return to revenue service quickly if needed."Anyone notice that the wrecker used to set the car on blocking is still in the scene in the fourth photo? My best guess... the car was damaged in a wreck and the parts gathered together for shipment back to the owner. Subsequently the decision was made to just pay for the car, making it available for service as a line side shed. Now that it's in place, the B&B gang will be by soon enough to strip all the extra hardware and fix it up as a shed. Dennis Storzek
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Re: Armour & Company Reefer 8644
Richard Townsend
What struck me was that the stirrups were removed and reattached, inverted and tucked inside the grab irons. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Sat, Dec 14, 2019 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Armour & Company Reefer 8644 I received this comment from someone:
"Note that they apparently sawed off a couple feet of running boards at the end, leaving the braces dangling. But the remainder seems intact. Also they removed the corner platforms, and then just dumped them on the roof! Didn't even bother to drop them to the ground and haul them off, so it seems this reefer was prepared to return to revenue service quickly if needed." Anyone agree? I certainly do not. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Armour & Company Reefer 8644
I received this comment from someone:
"Note that they apparently sawed off a couple feet of running boards at the end, leaving the braces dangling. But the remainder seems intact. Also they removed the corner platforms, and then just dumped them on the roof! Didn't even bother to drop them to the ground and haul them off, so it seems this reefer was prepared to return to revenue service quickly if needed." Anyone agree? I certainly do not. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Looking for resin reefer parts
Walter Cox <WaltGCox@...>
Thanks Greg,
There was a post after one of the recent (St. Louis) shows that a hobby shop in Paducah was selling Stan's product. I contacted them and they were sold out. Someone had just bought 50 or 60 kits. I was after the kit of the 225 NWX 1955 Renton rebuilds and 2 or 3 sets of the Despatch shops ends for MDT reefers.
If anyone knows of another source for these items I would appreciate hearing of it. While I'm at it is there a scorce for the GTW war emergency gondola.
TIA Walt
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Looking for resin reefer parts
Greg Martin
Craig is not producing parts at this point. Greg Martin
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From: Walter Cox via Groups.Io <WaltGCox@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Fri, Dec 13, 2019 5:25 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Looking for resin reefer parts If Craig is a reseller does anyone have contact information for Craig ? I could use a few things.
Walt
-- Hey Boss, Somehow I got deleted from this group in late May. I guess someone didn't like me. Jail is a lonely place. Greg Martin
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Re: offered: HO Great Northern 1958 cu ft covered hopper by Intermountain RTR
Mont Switzer
Andy,
Would you please contact me at mswitzer@....
Mont Switzer
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From: Andy Carlson <midcentury@...>
Date: 12/13/19 5:45 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: STMFC <main@realstmfc.groups.io>
Subject: [RealSTMFC] offered: HO Great Northern 1958 cu ft covered hopper by Intermountain RTR
Hello-
I have a new, in never been removed from mint packaging condition, Intermountain Great Northern HO 1958 cu ft covered hopper, GN #71025; IM # 48603-02. This car has the version of triangular openings on the car side and is painted in the as-delivered
11-51 mineral red scheme.
Offered for $24, plus buyer to pay $6 shipping by USPS 1st class mail. I accept checks and money orders. With a small fee I also accept PayPal.
Thanks,
-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA
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New Resin Car Works mini-kit
Eric Hansmann
Resin Car Works has released a new HO scale mini-kit to build an Illinois Central single-sheathed boxcar. Kit details are featured in our latest blog post.
Eric Hansmann
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Re: 3D pantograph mold making
Doug MacLeod
Don, I had my 3D Frederick Deckel pantograph since 2004 and hardly used it as the 2D Gordons pantographs do about everything I want. Gordon 2D pantographs have a taper attachment which is a nice feature when needed. A CNC mill is almost a requirement on time consuming projects. The plastic injection molds I make are in brass or aluminum. Steel molds take ten times or more to make than brass or aluminum. CNC machining would be the only way to go. CNC machining is a whole different concept. A CAD drawing is required and drawing with CAD is time consuming. I still like the basic machining methods best. Doug
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New freight car book for sale
Ted Schnepf
Hello everyone, Just arrived today the new freight car book for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad. I thought the ore cars would overwhelm the presentation in the book, but that is not the case. the railroad had many other car types, especially gondolas in steel service. The 319 page book covers both freight and passenger cars on the Missabe from 1883 to 2004 with a good balance of all eras. It appears to be a well done book by a knowledgeable author. Contact me off list to get your copy. Also got resupplied on the ART and MDC reefer books. Rails Unlimted Ted Schnepf 126 Will Scarlet, Elgin, Ill. 60120 847=697-5353
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Re: Looking to contact Ed Kaminski . . . now PM Wooden Cabooses
I don’t know if this is relevant to your quest, but we have PM Caboose A621at Huckleberry Railroad in Flint, MI. It is on static display, and is appropriate for HRR since most of its right of wayuses the old PM branch from Flint to Fostoria.
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Re: Looking for resin reefer parts
Walter Cox <WaltGCox@...>
If Craig is a reseller does anyone have contact information for Craig ? I could use a few things.
Walt
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Re: Express Reefers
Tony Thompson
Allen Cain wrote:
Yes, most express cars were operated by the REA as a pool, so cars certainly went off-line, though their owners were supposed to maintain and repair them. That of course would mean they came home occasionally. Tony Thompson
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Re: 3D pantograph mold making
proto48er
Bill - You can put all this good pantograph information to use making freight cars! Just purchase my Deckel GK-21 pantograph engraver! I have the actual machine that was alleged to have created the Bowser plastic injection molding dies for the PRR H21a hopper cars! It is here in south Texas waiting for a purchaser PM if interested! A.T. Kott
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Re: Armour & Company Reefer 8644
David Soderblom
A lovely scene. The car is on blocks, yet retains all its fittings (brake hose, coupler, …). And then there’s the siding. I would love to see someone reproduce that sketchy track, with its odd angles and eroded dirt “ballast.”
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offered: HO Great Northern 1958 cu ft covered hopper by Intermountain RTR
Andy Carlson
Hello- I have a new, in never been removed from mint packaging condition, Intermountain Great Northern HO 1958 cu ft covered hopper, GN #71025; IM # 48603-02. This car has the version of triangular openings on the car side and is painted in the as-delivered 11-51 mineral red scheme. Offered for $24, plus buyer to pay $6 shipping by USPS 1st class mail. I accept checks and money orders. With a small fee I also accept PayPal. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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Express Reefers
Allen Cain
Looking at Railway Express Reefers that include road names, in particular, Seaboard Air Line, and wondering if they traveled off line like in Southern and ACL passenger trains as well as on the SAL. Allen Cain
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