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Re: online USRA hopper information

Pat, Forwarding to you some STMFC info on USRA hoppers. I figure you'll want to do an article on these at some point. Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

By Ed Hawkins · #94390 ·

Re: online USRA hopper information

Steve Hedlund asked: "Does anyone know where there is information on USRA hoppers that is posted online?" The only online listing of USRA hoppers that I know of is on the pay side of the RPI

By Benjamin Hom · #94389 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

As an aside, CN's Toronto (now MacMillan) Yard was opened in 1965--with a two-track reefer icing facility in its receiving yard. Though past the mandate of STMFC, it's interesting to note a large new

By Steve Lucas <stevelucas3@...> · #94388 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

-- If something is yet to happen in the future, how can it interest historians? :-) -- Mediums? Prophets? Futurists, perhaps? Dennis People are interested in the future. Historians are

By Tim O'Connor · #94387 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

If something is yet to happen in the future, how can it interest historians? :-) Mediums? Prophets? Futurists, perhaps? Dennis

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #94386 ·

Re: CB&Q car classifications

To make it even more fun, the CB&Q/C&S/FW&D applied the same classification to 16,000 box cars built from 1945 to the late 1950's, class XM-32. All of the cars were 40'6" IL and 10'6" IH with 6' doors

By Tim O'Connor · #94384 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

Tim O'Connor wrote: I would have said, "ice was still an option." PFE officially ended the "ice age" for refrigeration on all its lines on September 2, 1973, but top icing was still available

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94383 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

In 1954 NP bought 50 mech reefers mostly for frozen food service, and in 1956 MILW (URTX) bought 40 cars from PC&F. Both groups had electric heaters and could maintain -10 to 60 degree temperatures in

By Tim O'Connor · #94382 ·

Mechanical Reefers

I will doing a clinic on the "FGE/WFE/BRE Mechanicals: 1948-1957" at Cocoa Beach in January. FGE conducted trial w/9 systems beginning in 1948 to see which system could keep a load at 0 degrees and

By Bill Welch · #94381 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers

Evan Leisey wrote: The biggest factor keeping ice refrigeration in service was that ice provided a huge capacity to absorb heat in a fairly rapid fashion. That meant that produce could be

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94380 ·

Re: Shiping Rose Sstock By Rail - Questions?

To add to Tony's question, Did they ship only carload lots to wholesalers or did they ship lcl to retailers as well? Rich Orr

By SUVCWORR@... · #94379 ·

CB&Q car classifications

I'm doing a lot of research on CB&Q freight cars and I've come into a roadblock of sorts. I've noticed that the CB&Q designates car series with a car class. The tough part is that, unlike the Pennsy,

By S hed <shed999@...> · #94378 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

Evan Leisey 4 wrote: There were a variety of experimental mechanical reefers built as early as the 1920s, but none were successful on any scale until after WW II. The usual explanation is the

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94377 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

Al Kresse wrote: They had to. It wasn't until 1972 that the ICC released railroads from the responsibility to provide icing if needed. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94385 ·

online USRA hopper information

Does anyone know where there is information on USRA hoppers that is posted online? I have lists for the USRA mill gons, USRA composite drop bottom gons, USRA double sheathed box cars, and USRA

By S hed <shed999@...> · #94376 ·

Re Suncoast Models FGEX Wood Kit

Thye wooden roof would be appropriate for a car in their original condition - the metal roofs were added from about the mid thirties. HTH Aidrian

By Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton <smokeandsteam@...> · #94375 ·

Re: Suncoast Models FGEX Wood Kit

--- In STMFC@..., Denny Anspach <danspach@...> wrote: I built this kit many years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. It is a still a personal favorite; Me too. There was more than

By ed_mines · #94464 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

PFE's first mechanical reefers were class R-70-7 (1953). See Thompson et al., "PFE", 1st ed., chapter 9. I don't know about other companies. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

By al_brown03 · #94374 ·

Re: Suncoast Models FGEX Wood Kit

I built this kit many years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. It is a still a personal favorite; and as a model it has garnered unsolicited praise by some pretty tough critics, particularly as

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #94373 ·

Re: Ice vs Mechanical Reefers - Off Subject?

I believe they were still discussing moisture concerns with meat with mechanical refrig in the early 1950s . . . until they realized they could start with a goodly amount of artificial moisture and

By water.kresse@... · #94372 ·

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