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

[NW Modeling List]

Dave


I have very limited knowledge on this subject.  There are a number of 
drawings for the Class A25 ref. box cars at the archives.  They were 
around from the late teens to the early 40's.  I even entered one for 
Hol-0018.08.  Did not know anything about these cars and still don't.


Hopes this helps.


Jim Blackstock


On 8/10/2021 9:55 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>
> Dear Modelers,
>
> 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).
>
> 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/>).
>
> 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.
>
> The two N&W reefers are numbered 7006 and 7008.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> If so, I might have to try my hand at modeling one some day!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Bott
>
> 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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