When I lived in the Oxnard, California, area (Thousand Oaks) they told me not to even go the local stores, but go directly to the fields to buy strawberries. What they sell to the local resturaunts

John-- Very nice work on those cabeese! Steve Lucas. caboose. placement from used. consecutive. over

Well that is what the people I know that are in the business of shipping produce told me. You will not see oranges with color spots in shipment and so on. Yes shipping takes from the products but

Richard, How quickly did the Santa Fe repaint their steel box cars after 1947 from straight line maps to the Ship & Travel slogan? I am modeling the Pennsy in the 1954 era and was wondering if I

The 1/53 ORER says IC 81750-81752 were class LO, height to eaves 12'2", height to running board 13'4", capacity 3470 cu ft. Open triple hoppers in series 81000-81744 were 10'9" to eaves, 2778 cu ft.

Many thanks to the folks who responded to my question. By the way, I have a Sanborn map showing the structure of a produce warehouse in Topeka. It shows six internal rooms for bananas, each

Okay, time for another question: Let us suppose that the first strawberries of the year are shipped via Express Reefer in a passenger train. I can imagine (based on descriptions in The Book) how

Larry Jackman wrote: Baloney, Larry. When I moved back to California from Pittsburgh, I couldn't believe how much better the produce was here. Don't forget, the journey isn't especially good for

Jeff (photo attached) I have a photo of a Soo Line reefer being used in LCL service. This was common in early days, esp on branchlines. Local grocers got their meat and other prerishables via an LCL

One thing to note. The closer you are to grower the poorer your [produce will be. When you ship some thing across the country and pay the freight rates charged you want to get the best price you

I never saw any on the Un Pac or John Santa Fe. There were a lot of local meat plants and Trucks. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@... Boca Raton FL 33434 I want to die in my sleep

How would you handle Bananas? It was my job to handle the Bananas. We worked part time. I was called in to unload them. We got a car about every 6th day. We had three rooms for them one holding, one

I added the question about meat because of the area I model (Northern Arizona)towns were not large enough to support wholesale grocery dealers. I have been trying to determine how these small

If you're interested in any of the current-run Tahoe Model Works trucks and you don't find any at the Ann Arbor Club's show, a 20-mile drive north from Saline to Pinckney would take you to Michigan

http://www.furan.com/furfural_historical_overview.html - the Quaker Oats feedstock for furfural production was (big shock!) oat hulls. Not likely to matter what was used from a freight car

If you consider meat a perishable, then yes. Meat packers would send out a 'route' car that would be placed on a local and unloaded at each stop. These cars only ran on certain days and you (local

George A. Walls wrote: Not in the tariff or in the language of the business. But of course meat is "perishable" in its nature. In the strict sense, only as Larry described, but the meat

question about meat. I see no need to be quite so restrictive on the topic.< I don't think meat is defined as a perishable. But then I guess it would depend on the temperature and for how

Okay. But somehow I always thought meat was perishables. Now, was meat handled as LCL or was it like Larry discribed? George A. Walls towns?

Tony, I'm willing to extend my question to include George's question about meat. I see no need to be quite so restrictive on the topic. Regards, -Jeff