Dick, I'd be interested in such a file. Storey Lindsay Celje, Slovenia

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ted Culotta asked: Ted & all, I put together a chart of most of the dimensions for PFE Steel Ice reefers (I also did wood reefers) taken from the ORER's. It has been part of

Thanks Bill! Yes, I should have realized the reefer was leased TO the Illinois Central, and not to MDT. Duh.

Apparently REA changed their paint scheme in 1952, adding the diamond logo, at which time the name was taken down off the letterboard and put on the left of the door, maybe to help balance the scheme.

Not yet posted. But if you come up with anything, I'll be glad to add it. Since this is still in its preliminary, I'm concentrating on just listing all the kits, and trying to find basic information,

Tim, Here's what I got... Blt by GATC 1937 Blt by GATC 1937 Blt by GATC 1942 converted in 1947 from 52000-55999 series which included wood cars built from 1916 to 1922 from Haskel & Barker, ACF,

I would love to pore over those photos of IC and MDT reefers! And a help would be for someone to identify build dates for these from the 1953 & 1959 ORER: IC 50000-50283 7' 3"IH IC 50284-50299 7'

Thompson, Church and Jones "PFE" has almost everything you might want to know about these reefers. 2nd edition just came out.

Ted, I'm not aware of any article or other resource that compiles this information, though you might want to see if John Nehrich has posted something on the Renssalaer RR web site. I have this

Does anyone know of a resource that points out the differences between the early steel reefers of the major refrigerator lines? What I am trying to determine is, using the PFE's R-40-10 through

DRGW 71000-71999- blt. 1943 Pressed Steel as War Emergency GS gons (not to an AAR standard). They had "Pressed Steel" ends, Duryea underframes, Royal Type F brake gear regulators and the brake wheels

Warren: Your provider may have something to do with your lack of SPAM (though I doubt it). Maybe you just have good karma .... I get my e-mail through a server at the University of Virginia, and I

Not much of a surprise. The CP handed off coal to the Spokane International for movement into the states. Dave Nelson

As I reported earlier...sometime during this century I believe...pg 99 of Northern Pacific Classic Steam Era shows a string of Canadian Pacific gons of some kind at Missoula, Montana in '40. There's

Richard wrote: "The lignite NP burned in its steam locos, for example, had the reputation of being barely flammable dirt." Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 And Warren,

Speaking of GS gons in the Northwest, there is a shot of a C&S GS gon at Tacoma in '47 on pg 78 of Northern Pacific Supersteam Era. Anyone having this excellent book should take a look at pg 42 if you

Tim O'Connor wrote: To which Dave Nelson replied: Yes. I haven't had time to study the book in detail (It's organized in numerical order of the last three digits in the car numbers, so trying

A routine movement pre mid-50's, largely via a DRGW/WP/GN routing. Richard, what is the date of the Beiber interchange book you have? Any of these cars jump out at you? DGRW 40000-42500 DRGW

Same book; this time a D&RGW GS gondola loaded with coal, on an NP [mixed] local in Centralia, Washington in the 1950's... (So, it would appear Utah coal travelled to Washington state.) Timothy

FYI, in Warren Wing's Northwest Rail Pictorial (p. 121) is a 1943 photo showing an IC GS gondola (blt GATC 1940) #85121 on a Milwaukee Road local south of Seattle, loaded with lumber! So at least