Let's see if I can do this off the top of my head: 1. Pere Marquette/Chesapeake & Ohio Badger - still in service at Ludington (autos and trucks only) Spartan - laid up at Ludington / spare parts

Ben Hom wrote: Remember that express reefers were used for time-critical shipments, so items such as medicine, the first harvest of higher value produce such as berries, flowers, etc.. Don't forget

Most easily by going to a limestone quarry and choosing the proper size from those that are offered. I did that with an empty 2 lb. peanut butter jar and got a second one of smaller size for ballast.

Yes, during the late steam era there were entire trains of express reefers on railroads in the anthracite region going to New York City, frequently ending with a coach or even several passenger

I am looking to reach Jim Singer and don't believe he does much email. Could someone share, privately, his phone number? Use the Reply to Sender link or contact me directly as shile AT mindspring

Dennis Storzek wrote: Yes, that is what was recommended. Some shippers wanted salt in pre-icing as well, to get even colder air in the car, but the car standing for perhaps two hours with doors

So, since we are seeing bagged salt at the loading point, I take the reefers were pre-iced without salt, and the salt added at time of loading to drive the temperature lower to more quickly pull the

Alex Huff wrote: If you want to use the tariff language, common to railroaders and shippers alike, the reefers would be pre-iced and the LOAD could be pre-cooled, not vice versa. Tony

Attached is a listing of temperatures required for shipping various kinds of fruits and vegetables. Note that Strawberries, among many others, are to be kept at 32. A small application of salt would

Hammond, LA, on the IC main line, was another loading station for strawberries. The reefers were pre-cooled, having been iced at the division point and shops at McComb, MS. Destined mostly for the

Schuyler and Group, Good Morning! Agricultural lime is just like fine sand, easy to model with a number of mediums. Mike Schleigh in Grove City, PA

Frank Hodina had time recently to tinker with a locomotive on the workbench. A few simple upgrades have brought a classic model back to life and ready to haul freight cars around the layout. It's the

They were almost certainly FGEX consortium cars, whose truss rod cars ran into the 50s. In 1948 they comprised almost 12% of FGEX, more than 41% of WFEX, and over 10% of BREX, or more than 21% of

I note that the load in the gon pretty closely resembles the plastic load that, I think, Athearn offers. Same sort of undulating surface. Schuyler

I had the great good fortune to sail on the City Of Milwaukee across Lake Michigan late in her carrier when she was the Ann Arbor spare boat - filled with freight cars & a few large trucks with my

And I believe the Spartan is tied up in Luddington, a spare parts source for the Badger. Dennis Storzek

Actual consists, Santa Fe Fast Mail J. Stephen Sandifer

Technique noted, thanks. Schuyler

The City of Midland 41 was cut down to a barge and still operates as the Pere Marquette 41. I saw it with the tug Undaunted off South Manitou island in Lake Michigan two weeks ago. John

Santa Fe had a contract with a Manure Pulverizing company to process the waste from it big Morris Feed Lot. Ultimately it became fertilizer. The same was true for dirty stock car bedding. J.