hauling milk in NC in reefers with N&W reporting marks?

[NW Modeling List]

Dave,

Indeed the N&W did have some reefers, or what the NWHS Archives calls
refrigerated boxcars.  Here is what is available in the archives:

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/listdocs/select.php?index=rs&id=3066

Here is a link to the Va Tech photo archive that shows two of the A-25 cars
in a different (probably original) number series.

https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/search.php

These were class A-25, N&W 70000 - 70009; per the roster information I
have, all ten cars show in 1935 and 1936 (earliest info I have compiled);
they are off the roster as of July 1, 1937.

Quite the interesting find that at least two of these cars were in
service!  I have never been able to figure out what they were used for.  I
don't know if they made it to the Fruit Growers Express consortium.

Hope this helps.

Jim Brewer

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 11:10 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Dear Modelers,
>
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>
> I was analyzing my conductor wheel reports from 1934 for the Southern's
> Winst0n-Salem division to prepare for my presentation at the upcoming
> Middle Atlantic Railroad Prototype Modelers meet this September.  My
> presentation discusses building a model layout freight car fleet through
> "triangulation" of data sources (and "Cap'n" HF Snow's conductor's books
> from Jan-Oct, 1934 is one of the my most useful sources and the reason I'm
> modeling 1934 in North Carolina).
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> In the analysis, I examined the proportion of reporting marks by car type
> and learned some interesting things about the N&W freight cars around
> Greensboro and Winston-Salem (which you can hear about from me at the MARPM
> meet (see Home | MARPM | Mid-Atlantic RPM <https://www.marpm.org/>).
>
>
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> In looking at *reefers* I was surprised to see two reefers listed with
> N&W reporting marks making round trips between Winston-Salem Union Station
> and Pomona yard in Greensboro carrying milk waybilled to Greensboro and
> High Point, NC and returning empty to the N&W via Winston-Salem.
>
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> The two N&W reefers are numbered 7006 and 7008.
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> I'm curious to learn more about these.  Are they milk cars labeled as
> reefers by the Southern conductor?  Is there evidence of reefers with N&W
> reporting marks for 1934?   All I can find in the archives are photos of
> non-N&W reefers and some track plans for White House and PET milk
> facilities in Virginia and Union Dairy platform for the Illinois Terminal
> RR.
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> What can you tell me about this intriguing finding?  Did Cap'n Snow write
> down the wrong info multiple times?  Or were there reefers carrying milk
> lettered for the N&W in 1934?
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> If so, I might have to try my hand at modeling one some day!
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dave Bott
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>
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> Here's a sneak preview of some interesting, if not totally surprising,
> N&W-related findings about N&W boxcars on the Southern trains
> (Gilbert-Nelson hypothesis doesn't apply to these trains):
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