Dave et al: My Bad... The reference I cited was actually from Classic Trains Special Edition #9 in 2011; not, as I stated, the magazine itself. The edition is titled "Working on the Railroad." I attached a link to the photo of icing at Roseville, CA in 1948 but I'm not sure it will work as the Kalmbach site is password protected...
http://ctr.trains.com/en/Online%20Extras/Photo%20of%20the%20Day/2011/06/Icing%20the%20reefers%20at%20Roseville.aspx With my own less than stellar sense of balance, this is not a job I could ever have accomplished! Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <ctxm@...> wrote: > > > > --- 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 > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
