Ranyd Williamson writes: And your point is? Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Aidrian Bridgman writes: Can't answer this one; let us know if you find out. Note that the list does include TY for Thomas Yard. Thanks! One more small piece of the puzzle. Richard H.

In 1954, the Pennsy received 7,500 cars of perishables from the Chicago Produce Terminal. Approximately 60,000 carloads of perishable traffic eastbound were handled through the Dolton interchange

Question ET SLSF East Tulso OK Is this "East Tulsa" or "East Thomas" which was the Frisco's yard in Birmingham, Al? The latter *may* have been ETH, but I have never seen definitive

Charlie is quite right. Low priority freight such as coal and other bulk minerals might have taken two or three days to thread its way through the Chicago maze, but perishables were handled

ed_mines wrote: According to the PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1948 AAR's SUPERINTENDENT's CONVENTION, the "Tide distribution orders" of the ICC had been ended and the distribution of reefers were as per

Boy do I wish I could find this kind of day-to-day information on the Cotton Belt, or even the SP-TNO. You must have done some serious dumpster diving back in those days, Chet! Shawn Beckert, very

Jeff Aley forwarded comments of Mark Amfahr; among them were: Mark obviously is unaware that there was no per-diem on reefers; they were charged by mileage moved, so storing them was "free" in

I wouldn't put too much stock in the Chicago bottleneck theory as far as perishables.... The CB&Q had strict shedules to drop eastbound reefers and livestock at the IHB interchange at Congress Park.

scales out will be the match to Dreadnaught Murphy end. Modeler peaked roof Ben, At Cocoa Beach, Steve Funaro stated that the Wabash SS automobile cars are his next project, which he wanted to start

My Mom told me about how if she or her sisters got up early and got to the milk on a cold morning, the milk delivered would have frozen and the they'd have fun eating what was really 'iced' cream,

at 93, cars MORE In looking at a few morning reports, it appears that train 1-90 was the main perishable handling train out of Kansas City on the Wabash. This train almost always handled loads

In a message dated 1/18/05 3:41:35 PM, lanceb@... writes: << If the farmer owned a separator, he would also have cream, but this was much heavier than milk and was carried in its own

The B&O sold the Alton to the recently created GM&O (1941) in 1947. By the way, the last legacy of the B&O ownership of the Alton has disappeared in the last year or so at least on the section

Nope, no radial roof for us. Neat car though... I suppose there are harder things to scratchbuild than radial roofs. Mike Skibbe www.cgwrr.com them. I

Tim, Without digging through the boxes in the basement, I do know that the Wabash delivered perishable cars to the PRR at Logansport for movement east. Perhaps some also went to the PRR at Ft

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@o...> wrote - "So it was certainly the case the MDT and other off-line reefers sometimes turned up as eastbound loads in western

Ben- I'll have to pull out the Walthers N cars to see what they have on them. I don't recall the end doors but we have other cars that could be donors....but I also don' t recall if it has a radial

Forwarded from the RI Tech Society List. -Jeff --- Forwarded mail from tinder@... (Dick Tinder) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:50:45 -0600 To: ritslist@... From:

Ed Mines writes: During and immediately after WW II, when the feds required pooling of reefers, MDT and NRC cars would have been more common in the western US than later. But even after the pooling