--- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote:
> To my knowledge blocks of ice were not dropped directly in >bunkers - the
> efficiency of cooling would have been awful.
>
I remember seeing the men icing PFE cars in the old days. The long icing
platforms had a chain conveyor to deliver the blocks of ice along it's length.
The men use long bars or poles to push the ice around and out onto the car
roofs and it seems like they only broke it up into chunks small enough to get
into the hatches,I don't think they had time to break it really small. Other
times I have seen them ice cars with blown chopped ice from a hose but that was
shot into the car interior on top of the load instead of into the ice bunkers.
We had a Union Ice plant here on the Santa Cruz branch but it did not have an
icing platform so they sent mechanical reefers over here as soon as they became
available, around 1957 or so. The ice bunker cars continued in mainline service
for many years after that till enough mechanical cars were built to replace
them. The last ice bunker cars I recall seeing were on the Visalia Electric
maybe in the early 1980's for the orange crop. ..DaveBranum
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