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Pecans will o rancid if left sealed, faster in warm conditions, even more in Summer's heat.? Reefers for shipping pecans makes good sense.

refers probably offered better protection and shipping enviroment mel perry [email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, Chief Bob! Pecan pieces, who woulda' thunk? Another destination for reefers!? Now I wonder how raisins were shipped.? A photo at Sun Maid showed box cars. but that was probably in Summer.?

Load Of Pecan Pieces This is link to a 1927 photo from the collection of the University of Utah : https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jq397q (

To help date the picture, the car is a 1950 Chrysler Windsor - Unfortunately, I'm not good at identifying steam engines, but I can tell a car by it's grill :)

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah : https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj05h8 ( https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj05h8

Looks like either the first series of Challengers or a 2-8-8-0. ?I’ll go with the CSA1

Bob, Is that a Big Boy heading it up,, or a Challenger?? The photo comes in too small for me to tell. I suppose you saw the clip of the Big Boy running through the snow in Kansas.? A friend sent me

Crate Label Society Meeting (Dec. 14 - Riverside , CA ) Information from Tom Spellman... The Citrus Label Society will meet on: When: Saturday, December 14, 2019 Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Where:

A great photo thank you for sharing Paul Doggett. England ???????

He was one of the great photojournalists of the Life Magazine era. Bill Jolitz

Photo: Reefer Train A UP steam locomotive with a block of reefers in Wyoming. Note the snow fence to the right of the photo. This photo was taken by Elliott Erwitt, who is known for his artistic

Thanx for all the info. I will study your Patch website. hope things are progressing downstairs. Lou

That's page 41, not 4, of the 2012 Great Model Railroads. There's also information on my virtually stagnant Patch website at: http://www.patchrailroad.net/The_Patch/Patch_Operations.html Keith Jordan

Route Cards Tony Thompson noted that on PFE reefers a common location for route cards was near the door. Another common location was near the bolster at the bottom of the car side on wood-sheathed

Bob and Others, Thanks for posting these. I use car tags for car switching/forwarding on my Patch layout, set in Los Angeles. I was able to locate several prototype Santa Fe tags, along with zone

Refrigerator Car Tags Below is a collection of refrigerator car tags from the collection of Ralph Heiss. Based on the known size of the smaller numbered route cards the larger cards are not as large

Weathering A Reefer A post from Ralph Heiss' Lehigh Valley Harbor Terminal Railway on weathering a reefer with PanPastel medial and an artist's pencil:

Photo: SFRD 35361 Photo of a Class Rr-28 reefer with straight line map:

I misspoke by equating demurrage with per diem. While they both represent charges by a railroad for others use of their equipment, they specifically differ as follows: Demurrage - A penalty charge