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Nostalgia & History > ReefersDate: 07/14/06 23:04 Reefers Author: choochoocharlie No, not the kind you can smoke, but they might smoke once in awhile. 3 PFE mechanical reefers in Guadalupe, CA. in 1974. These may have been bad ordered as you will see bad order tags coming up.
1 - SPFE 453690 2 - UPFE 450213 3 - UPFE 450894    Date: 07/14/06 23:08 Re: Reefers Author: choochoocharlie Couple of bad order tags on the reefers south of the Guadalupe station. The last shot is the Guadalupe station looking north on November 1t, 1974............C.C.Chas.
   Date: 07/14/06 23:21 Re: Reefers Author: xtra1188w May I chime in here as well? Here's one from a slide that I just scanned yesterday. This picture was taken LATE one afternoon at Sneed in north Austin Texas as the reefer was rolling slowly southward in a MoP train.
Con  Date: 07/15/06 07:15 Re: Reefers Author: shtinkypuppie Man, guadalupe must've been a hoppin' place back then. Nowadays, 'excitement' in guad is seeing #14 and the SMV arrive in town at the same time
Date: 07/15/06 16:38 Re: Reefers Author: ProAmtrak And I remember down in the Antelope Valley how SP ran Pershiable Trains one west, one east. Sad SP lost all that buisness to trucks though!
Date: 07/16/06 16:48 Re: Reefers Author: BaltoJoey Remember, it was Adolph Busch who pioneered the use of refrigerated cars! :-)
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