Try using Baking Soda as the blast media Bill Welch

I noticed behind Dave's photograph of an InterMountain modern Diesel at the Naperville display there are a stack of survey forms telling people about seven projects they are considering and asking for

Tim, I am not a conduit to Intermountain. You need to let them know where to put their survey. Bill Welch

I agree. Plus I think people are learning to discriminate. Bill Welch

I cannot find my copy to see if they give any info to help locate the photo like a "call number" but the people at PSA are helpful. I have visited there and have purchased items. Bill Welch

Yes Bill Welch

FGEX 31183 is from a very camera shy series first built by the C&EI about 1912 that FGE purchased from C&EI's Bankruptcy Trustee at a time when FGE needed to add about 1000 cars quickly in early 1920.

Does the Atlas 1932 C&O car have the Climax roof? Bill Welch

This morning I was reading the Fruit Growers Express 1921 Annual Report wherein they note that they lost 32 cars due to accidents in 1920, a year in which they were only in business for 8 plus months.

The slide must have sold as I could not find using the link provided. As described it does sound like one of FGE's 50' plywood sheathed cars. bill welch

The car in question was originally sheathed with plywood. These cars, like their PFE and SFRD counterparts, were built primarily to transport frozen foods. Obviously this has been resheathed w/T&G. Bi

This is the ACL car. I used one of these to build a nice model before the Sunshine kit. Champ did the decals Bill Welch

Tim, Larry, and all BRE's truss rod reefers were built in 1904, 1905, 1909, 1911, and 1914 while WFE's were built in 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917 and 1921-22. FGE's are harder to document exactl

Gentleman: In the Fruit Growers Express 1922 Annual Report they make note of the various icing facilities associated with FGE that were either built or received improvement during that year. One of th

Tony Given the language in the 1922 Annual Report and in other years I believe that the facilities they mention are ones they owned or leased, or ones owned by FGE's owners. Rich's information that th

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 be

No, propelled systems are powered by internal combustion engines, non-propelled have no power source of any kind. Bill Welch

There is a copy of the SFRD reefer book on eBay at about $10 right now. I found it by accident, but to see if it would get there I also keyed in "Santa Fe Refrigerator" and this took me right to it. G

Gentlemen: I am trying to compile an accurate and comprehensive list of Icing Station locations and the railroads related to these stations for the FGE/WFE/BRE System (1919-1957). I have managed to as

So far I have not identified any Icing facilities in Bieber. I would appreciate you checking on your end Garth. Al Kreese has been helping me with the C&O and PM. For those that don't know, the counti