Al, To the best of my knowledge, watermelons were never iced in a ventilated car. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia Division

I believe that some were used to haul Maine potatoes from the Aroostook Valley Railroad in the eastern part of Maine into New Brunswick. Steve Lucas.

FGE had a large repair shop in Jacksonville, Fl it would be logical that there would be an icing station there also "The Fruit Growers Express Company was incorporated in Delaware with shops in

Thanks, Al. Found your items. ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue, June 19, 2012 2:11:59 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] eBay Curt – uriahandaheap – Al

Curt – uriahandaheap – Al Westerfield Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:12 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] eBay Al, What is your eBay seller ID? Curt

Al, What is your eBay seller ID? Curt Goff ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue, June 19, 2012 11:17:10 AM Subject: [STMFC] eBay I currently have a number of

Al Kresset wrote: I didn't know that ventilated box cars were iced for produce. Is this documented? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley,

Bill,   Would a so, so quality pix of the icing platform at New Buffalo on the PM be of any help?  I remember seeing a C&O map that shows the PM's Rouge Merge yard also had a re-icing platform

Gentlemen;     Use to see the CP 8 hatch reefers routinely on the Boston & Maine and New Haven, usually in blocks,coming down from Canada. Never did find out what they were carrying though-good

I currently have a number of Red Ball and Scale Structures Ltd. kits on eBay. – Al Westerfield [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi, Bruce - Right now the answer is a firm 'maybe.' I'm hoping we can do additional variations, but the biggest factor for this (or any other model, such as the 6' door Fowler cars - hint, hint), is

Hi, Ed - Actually, our models are (and have always been) available as individual items. In addition to single items, dealers and distributors have the option of purchasing multi-packs and selling as

Walthers is listing these only as 6-packs. While I could see buying one, maybe two, six is too many. Too bad. I note that Walthers lists no single HO freight cars from True Line. If True Line is

Randy, Thanks for the info! Any chance that we might see the earlier variants produced as well? As I understand the versions on the TLT web site, the earliest cars had a different end? I believe

Dear Bob Thank you for sharing this website . I cannot wait to study this. I would love to help someone in Florida do the same sort of thing with the items I have found. Bill Welch

I second what Bill stated. And if the potential manufactures need another resource, there is Jim Lancaster's excellent packing house website

Don Burn wrote: Thanks for the link, Don. Interesting summary of information about the CN cars. But the data are for the CN 209000 series, while the TLT models are from the 210000 series, as

Thanks, Richard. Glad to hear that. I was hoping to find a way to justify one of these on my layout. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Thanks, Greg, good information. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510)

Meat and fish, Rich, and there is photographic evidence of those cars in the US, e.g. in Utah on the UP and as far south as Los Angeles and Fort Worth. Probably not a lot of traffic, but they