A question about early refrigerator cars

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Brent,

N&W had some early refrigerator cars, Class A-25 (I could never figure out
this class designation since at the time N&W was using just alpha for Class
designations); see
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/listdocs/select.php?index=rs&id=3066

Here are links to photos at VA Tech Image:

https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2756
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2757

These cars did go to FGEX per Bill Welsh; at the convention last May in
Roanoke I copied some documents from the archives and sent them to Bill for
the FGEX book he is working on.

IIRC these cars were built new for N&W; I have no clue what they were used
for; maybe so others here might be able to shed some light. Hope this helps.

Jim Brewer

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:54 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I have a question for any of our learned historians.  N&W was an early
> party to join the Fruit Growers Express consortium, but unlike every other
> member of the group did not contribute any of its own refrigerator cars to
> the FGEX fleet.  My question is, what did N&W do with the refrigerator cars
> it had on its roster?
>
> Now in all honesty, I have never seen a photo of an N&W ice reefer, just a
> photo of a model that was in the N&W handbook by messers W and W.  I don't
> have access to any ORER books of that era to see if anything was ever
> listed.
>
> Did N&W ever roster its own refrigerator cars? And if so, what became of
> them if they were not transferred to FGEX?
>
> Brent
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