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Model Railroading > Pacific Fruit Express Orange 85 ft G85 piggy flats ?Date: 10/15/21 04:46 Pacific Fruit Express Orange 85 ft G85 piggy flats ? Author: Burlington67 Walthers is doing more G85 flats they are doing PFE orange g85 flats with a PFF initail , my 1970 equipment register book shows them yet I found a couple picture on websites both from 1969 is their any freight car guys that might know when they left the roster ? My 1975 equipment register book does not list them, I model mid 70"s its to bad my time period looks for sure they where gone already?
Date: 10/15/21 07:22 Re: Pacific Fruit Express Orange 85 ft G85 piggy flats ? Author: WAF Burlington67 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Walthers is doing more G85 flats they are doing > PFE orange g85 flats with a PFF initail , my 1970 > equipment register book shows them yet I found a > couple picture on websites both from 1969 is their > any freight car guys that might know when they > left the roster ? My 1975 equipment register book > does not list them, I model mid 70"s its to bad my > time period looks for sure they where gone > already? Probably gone by the early 70s Date: 10/15/21 09:18 Re: Pacific Fruit Express Orange 85 ft G85 piggy flats ? Author: trackplanner This is covered in the PFE book by Thompson, Church & Jones if you have access to a copy.
>Walthers is doing more G85 flats they are doing PFE orange g85 flats with a PFF initail , my 1970 equipment register book shows them yet I found a couple picture on websites both from 1969 is their any freight car guys that might know when they left the roster ? My 1975 equipment register book does not list them, I model mid 70"s its to bad my time period looks for sure they where gone already? Date: 10/15/21 12:28 Re: Pacific Fruit Express Orange 85 ft G85 piggy flats ? Author: RAS Similar ACF cars were integrated into the Espee fleet in the early 1970s, per info here:
F-70-17 Flat Cars (railfan.net) I suspect the G85 cars were gone around the same timeframe. -Rick Rick Selby Redmond, WA Pacific Northwest RPM |