From: Paul Krueger <kruegerp@...>
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Pabst at the lettuce farm, 1931
To: STMFC@...
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 9:19 AM
Ron, the description says "Monroe, ca. 1931"
meaning Monroe, circa
1931. I've often seen Wn. used to abbreviate
Washington and I trust
what is on the photo more than what is on the web page.

Here is the series description for the photo collection
these come from:
"The Lee Pickett collection of over 900 photographs
documents scenes
from Snohomish, King and Chelan Counties in Washington
State from the
early 1900s to the 1940s. Based in Index, in the heart of
the Cascade
Mountains, he took thousands of photographs of that region.
This
includes the towns and people of Index, Gold Bar, Scenic,
and Sultan.
Local industries, such as the Heybrook Lumber Co. and Index
Granite
Works, are also depicted. Pickett was perhaps best known
for his job
as official photographer for the Great Northern Railway
Company. A
large number of his photographs reflect the program
undertaken by the
company in the 1920s to improve the line over the Cascade
Mountains."

This series has many photos of the Stevens Pass line of the
GN, but
unfortunately not many include freight cars.

Paul
Seattle, WA

--- In STMFC@..., "Ron Smith"
<rpsmith@...> wrote:

Nice Pics, but that is not Monroe, Washington. Web

Page says Monroe,
Ca, (California), but label on Pic says Monroe, Wn,
(Wisconson).

Ron Smith
Carman, UPRR

----- Original Message -----
From: al_brown03
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:30 AM
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Pabst at the lettuce farm, 1931


FGEX, BREX, and WFEX cars were pooled. No more

surprising to see FGEX

cars on the GN than WFEX or BREX cars in Florida,

which also commonly

happened. See Bill Welch's essays for more

detail.

Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

--- In STMFC@..., water.kresse@ wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> Great images! Semi-surprised to see FGE cars

way out west.

>
> Why such a coarse (200 dpi) scanning rate?

Hopefully, they are

also doing Archival Quality scanning at 400-600 dpi

and in TIFF

formating (folks will want to crop and resize up,

and still have 300

dpi left for a publication). These won't stay

around for ever before

they fall apart.
>
> Al Kresse
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Paul Krueger"

<kruegerp@>

> Here is a picture taken from the icing platform

at a lettuce farm in

> Monroe, WA. Can't see much of the car

sides, but there is clearly a

> Pabst car mixed in there. Incoming load?
>
>

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?

CISOROOT=/pickett&CISOPTR=1302&CISOBOX=1&REC=16

>
> Two more related shots
>

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?

CISOROOT=/pickett&CISOPTR=1411&CISOBOX=1&REC=17

>
>

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?

CISOROOT=/pickett&CISOPTR=1351&CISOBOX=1&REC=17

>
> Paul
> Seattle, WA
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been

removed]

>

--- In STMFC@..., Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:

I need to remind myself from time to time that our current Post

Office official abreviations are relatively recent, certainly well
past the steam era. There were no official 2 letter state
abbreviations in the era of our interest.

-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA

That brings up an interesting point, does anyone have a link to a list
of the state abbreviations that were commonly used before the two
capital letter codes were adopted? When I try to Goggle the subject, I
gat about a million sites with the new codes, not the ones used
previously.
I'm old enough to remember the older abbreviations (and they were
written like abbreviations, capitalized first letter and followed by a
period) but only the ones I used:

Illinois Ill.
Indiana Ind.
Michigan Mich.
Minnesota Minn.
Pennsylvania Penn.
Wisconsin Wis. or Wisc.

And my all time favorite:

California Calif.

Which everyone knew meant stood for "Come and live in Florida." Old
joke :-)

Dennis

Iowa was Ia.

As to the Pabst car, it's presence shows why the law we commonly call the
"billboard reefer ban" was enacted. Shippers did not
like putting their product in cars that "advertised" another product. Am I
correct in understanding many of the "billboard" cars
were leased and ran under the reporting marks of their own, ie URTC or GATC, and
thus could be found loading products almost
anything where a reefer was needed.

Doug Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org