Thanks, Mont! That sounds like very similar experiences from those I’ve heard of RRs around my hometown, where they generated a LOT of coke. Elden Gatwood

Bill - You are correct. Hastings was the "epicenter" of the Florida potato industry. Hastings was served by the FEC, but the ACL, SAL, and SOU all had seasonal salesmen assigned in Hastings to try

Boy, that machine would be great for my leaves...lol... James Cummings.

what would be interesting is the unloading of these cars, with the door on the inside, especially with no door tracks just thinking out loud ;-)

That would jive with the photos I've seen and what Bruce described. These cars appeared to serve the smaller foundries once spread all across the midwest. Obviously these couldn't feed the appetite of

Speaking of potatoes, another important area for growing and harvesting potatoes is Long Island and thus the reason the Long Island RR had a contract with FGE to supply refrigerator cars, and their

The MONON hauled coke from the Indianapolis Gas and Coke utility to destinations all over the midwest. In our era composite stone gons had boxcar bodies dropped onto them. Roofs were removed for

Chad That was the first thing I noticed when I looked at the photo. Just last night I was looking at the three I have in different stages of construction. Chet French Dixon, IL

Dave, Somebody else attached the photo earlier in the thread. I no long have the early messages on my computer. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

This car has wood flooring with an overlay of perforated steel floor protection plates. I don't know what brand of plates these are. The namesake Doweloc car flooring was 12" wide laminated hardwood

How about any other kind of produce? Andy Jackson Santa Fe Springs CA

The C&O also had similar cars with the reinforcing rods.

Bob: Did you attache the wrong photo to this message? I am seeing PE 10067 (not 2417), and it's pretty clearly a 1940s pic (not 1918). ???? -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

Friends, The B&O converted older boxcars into coke gons by removing the roofs and tying the sides together with steel rods (that was the method in photos I have seen). This was done over several

Bob Chaparro wrote: The rather miscellaneous fleet of cars acquired by the "new PE" from the "old PE" and elsewhere are quite a complex story, well covered in several PE books, notably

Bob and Friends, Old PE boxcars 2072-2124 are listed in CARS OF PACIFIC ELECTRIC V. 3 as being renumbered to New PE 2382-2434, no doubt in conjunction with the 1911 merger which consolidated all the

I'm patiently waiting....... Jeff White Alma, IL

PE Boxcar 2417 A friend sent me this photo from the Brea (CA) Museum. Seen is Pacific Electric boxcar 2417 in Brea in 1918. I checked Thompson's SP boxcar book and there is no PE series for this

Photo: Pacific Electric Boxcar 2082 At El Monte Depot (Undated) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/85349/rec/180 Use the slider to

Maybe they're racks for tomatoes?