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NHIX 900-999 frozen food reefers in service
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nyc3001 .
According to Sunshine's PDS, the NHIX 900-999 series frozen food reefers were principally routed between Washington state and the Bronx Terminal Market in NYC. Does this suggest that they would often travel in groups of more than one? While there were only 100 built, I will justify having two if they frequently traveled over the Water Level Route in groups of more than one.
-Phil Lee |
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I thought the Bronx Terminal Market was served via car float by the CNJ? Was there a connection to the New York Central?
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Brian J. Carlson On Nov 7, 2022, at 3:49 PM, nyc3001 . <nyc3001@...> wrote:
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nyc3001 .
I guess it depends on which one we're thinking of. CNJ had its own, but the Central apparently also had a "Bronx Terminal" to the north that handled 10,000 cars per year.
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ed_mines
Bronx terminal market was a wholesale fruit & vegetable market located in the south Bronx near the Yankee stadium. |
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Benjamin Hom
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Has anyone got a photo to share of one of these cars ? I have never seen one. :-) On 11/7/2022 3:49 PM, nyc3001 . wrote: According to Sunshine's PDS, the NHIX 900-999 series frozen food reefers were principally routed between Washington state and the Bronx Terminal Market in NYC. Does this suggest that they would often travel in groups of more than one? While there were only 100 built, I will justify having two if they frequently traveled over the Water Level Route in groups of more than one. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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NYC definitely served the Bronx, since that is the location of the route into Manhattan Island. The CNJ had no direct rail link but could serve the city boroughs via car barges. I think there is still a rail served produce/food terminal in the Bronx. On 11/7/2022 9:04 PM, nyc3001 . wrote: I guess it depends on which one we're thinking of. CNJ had its own, but the Central apparently also had a "Bronx Terminal" to the north that handled 10,000 cars per year. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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nyc3001 .
Here is one from Sunshine's PDS. I've not seen another one although I'm sure there are more.
-Phil https://web.archive.org/web/20190126194524/http://sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun90b.pdf |
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Oh ! I didn't realize Sunshine had done this 50 foot reefer. Here is a shot of NHIX 822. So there was more than one number series. =-O On 11/11/2022 2:58 PM, nyc3001 . wrote: Here is one from Sunshine's PDS. I've not seen another one although I'm sure there are more. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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Richard Townsend
RMC had a two-part article (titled "MDT metamorphosis") by David Lambert on these cars in the January 1889 issue (pp. 56-60) and February 1990 (pp. 72-77). Included are photos and plans of the cars in their original configuration. Some were converted to REA express reefers and there are photos and plans of these cars. To explain the title of the articles, MDT owned the Northern Refrigerator Line, which owned the cars and leased them to the NP. There's a great deal of information on these cars and their dispositions in the two articles. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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ROGER HINMAN
The rmc plans have at least one error with the roof panel widths by the ice hatches, I believe the sunshine kit has this error also. Original drawings for this car are available at the np collection in St. Paul’s Minnesota historic
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Al society library Roger hinman On Nov 11, 2022, at 4:51 PM, Richard Townsend via groups.io <richtownsend@...> wrote:
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ROGER HINMAN
There were two different series:800s built in early fifties had different roof panels
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Roger hinman On Nov 11, 2022, at 4:05 PM, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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Scott
There are some good photos of the cars while under construction at MDT at the online NYC Historical Society photo archive as well.
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Here is a link to the photos that Scott has told us about. Notice the transverse-mounted AB reservoir.
https://nycshs.omeka.net/search?query=nhix&query_type=keyword&record_types%5B%5D=Item&submit_search=Search I still don't know if it's justifiable to have more than one of these cars since I'm not sure if they tended to travel in groups of more than one on the NYC. -Phil |
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Jeffery
Do you have any pictures of this car?
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Other than the photo posted earlier, this is the only NHIX reefer photo I have.
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Jeffery via groups.io" <jeffery.fonda@...>
Do you have any pictures of this car? |
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 50ft_reefer DallasTX 6-1962.jpg)
