--- In [email protected], Edward Sauers <ehsauers1@...> wrote:
> I would appreciate any info on the icing station. That is a neat facility, we
> need a nice icing station in S-scale!!!!
I remember seeing them when I was a kid but the mechanical reefers soon put
them out of business. I always thought they looked "cool" on hot days with
their big blocks of ice up there on the platform.
All the ones around here( central California) that I ever saw were much longer
than that model, they could ice a long string of reefers at the same time. We
had a union ice plant with spur here in Santa Cruz but it didn't have an icing
platform in my day, maybe SP never iced cars on the branch and just sent them
cold from Watsonville or maybe they had torn the platform down by the 50's.
Should not be too hard to scratch build an icing station, just need a lot of
strip wood for the platform and something to make the large ice house from. The
most difficult part might be the chain that pulled the blocks of ice up onto
the platform and along the top to the cars.Photos should be easy to find on
railroad history or modeling websites.....DaveBranum
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