tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post8807253863948113713..comments2024-03-03T17:14:05.768-08:00Comments on Robert's Vasona Branch Blog: Freight Car Research: 1935 Lawsuit Hints at San Jose Freight CarsRobert Bowdidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-57446601966767763672015-09-13T12:53:34.782-07:002015-09-13T12:53:34.782-07:00The congressional testimony for the California Coo...The congressional testimony for the California Cooperative Canneries attempt to overturn the meat packer's anti-trust ruling against getting into other businesses hints at one reason for the NWX refrigerator cars. One cannery operator pointed out canned goods were sensitive to freezing, so any canned goods shipped after October tended to go by refrigerator car.<br />Robert Bowdidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-17900977735006116412011-12-08T08:58:21.078-08:002011-12-08T08:58:21.078-08:00I'm suspecting the Reinbeck cars were from the...I'm suspecting the Reinbeck cars were from the Reinbeck Canning Company, which canned sweet corn and asparagus. I'm finding few other matches for food products there except for the stock yards.Robert Bowdidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-19937393814381621372011-07-16T22:35:49.624-07:002011-07-16T22:35:49.624-07:00SP 10329 is a typo on my part; it was supposed to ...SP 10329 is a typo on my part; it was supposed to be NP 10329, a 40' boxcar. <br /><br />I really suspect SP 10372 was a typo - perhaps either 18372 or 20372, either of which would be a 40' boxcar. The load was from South Vallejo, and all other cars from there were plain old boxcars.<br /><br />The final outlier that really annoys me is N&W 14839, ahopper from Peoria. The only other Peoria load was a refrigerator car from NWX (Northwestern Refrigerator Line Company). One obvious guess is that the car is actually an NWX, not N&W car. They didn't have any cars in that number range according to the 1930 ORER; a 1935 ORER would tell us whether they had one at the time of the CRC case.<br /><br />I don't know what would have arrived in refrigerator cars from Peoria, and we return to the question of where the refrigerated items would get stored if the grocery warehouse didn't have refrigeration.<br /><br />Mysteries on top of mysteries...Robert Bowdidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-57078434628151595262011-07-16T21:02:11.897-07:002011-07-16T21:02:11.897-07:00Another of the odd ducks - those two SP gondolas ...Another of the odd ducks - those two SP gondolas 10329 and 10372 which would put them in the W-50-6 class work or ballast gondolas. On page 39 of Tony Thompson's Vol 1 of the SP freight car series he notes that while the cars were assigned numbers in the revenue service series presumably making them available for general service, all the photographs of them show them in dump or ballast service. <br /><br />Either we've come across the first evidence of them in revenue service or the clerk putting together the listing made a typo. <br /><br />Interestingly enough there were 300 of that class built in 1923 all of which survived to 1950 - 233 were still around in 1955!Tom Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09808544834275660425noreply@blogger.com