Every Dec I try to find some unpublished, uncirculated data to share
with the group and this yr Santa came to the rescue. A friend of a
friend found a Burlington reefer lettering/diagram book in an old
home being remodeled in Westmont (ex-Q Mechanical emp?). Previous
publications including a BB or two, have covered National Car fairly
well but noted some data as to all the lessee's, paint schemes, car
numbers, etc were not available. Well, here is what may be a pretty
complete list with drwgs dated from 1924 to 1937 with the bulk
being "32 & 33. The index is undated but appears to be several yrs
later as the number of cars in each series has diminished. In any
case here are 63 (SIXTY THREE!) lessees of National (the book also
has dwrgs for BRE, CS, FWD, WFE & FGE). Enjoy!
I'm listing them as shown in the index which is partially by yr but
certainly not alphabetical. The book also shows renumberings. Gerald
# OF CARS LESSEE STATE NOTES
100 Kahn Packing Ohio 2 paint variations
10 Kohrs Packing Iowa " "
10 Otoe IA/Neb
8 Frazier Packing Indiana 2 paint variations
15 Vincennes Packing "
8 Producers Cold Stg MO 2 paint variations
1 Keokuk Canning Iowa
46 Carnation various Cars in series of 40 & 6
3 Pearl Packing Indiana 2 paint variations
8 Ross & Co. "
2 Meeters, Inc. Illinois
20 Goetz (beer) Missouri
10 Mahaffey Illinois
5 Sioux Produce Sioux City, IA
5 Peerbolte Illinois
4 Farmers' Coop Minnesota 'Pelican Butter'
2 " " Corning/Afton, IA 'Table Queen Butter'
2 McIlheny Creamery Texas
2 McDonough Refrig Line (no I.D. as to what or where)
40 Dingfelder & Balish Indiana onions
1 Miami County Egg "
1 Banner Creamery Texas
4 Johnson Produce Minn 'Cokato Chickens'
2 Dutch Valley Growers IL
2 McMullan Bro's IL (no I.D. as to product)
2 Tivoli-Union Colorado beer
2 Monarch Brewing IL
18 Henderson Produce MO
8 Chicago Macaroni IL
40 Fairmont Creamery Minn (car series of 10 & 30)
20 Hamm Brewing Minn
8 John Stegner Ohio (2 paint variations - meat)
1 Colorado Poultry & Egg Co.
8 Merriams Biscuit ? (no I.D. as to where)
30 Rocky Mt. Produce Colorado
4 Schneider Brewing " " (2 variations 'Century')
3 Ditolla Produce " "
3 Illinois Onion Growers
3 Bourk-Donaldson-Taylor Colorado (fruits/vegetables)
4 Glaser-Crandall Illinois (2 series of 2 cars)
2 Central Creamery Nebraska
2 Great Falls Brewery Montana (WFEX cars)
2 Heileman's LaCrosse, WI beer of course!
5 Columbia Conserve Indiana soup
2 T. T. Cowens Illinois produce???
4 Fehr Brewing Ky
20 LaCrosse Brewing Wis (2 series of 10 'Peerless')
1 Jonas Kaufmann IL (no I.D. as to product)
3 Onalaska Pickle Wis (just north of LaCrosse)
2 Fontanelle Brewing Neb 'Robin Hood'
30 Coors Colo Still a BN shipper!
100 Swift Packing -various-
2 Kray Packing (no drwg so no idea where)
2 Mathieson Alkali none shown dry ice
6 A.F. Thibodeaux none shown butter, eggs, poultry
5 Narragansett Rhode Is. beer
3 Long Prairie Creamery Minn
65 Lewis Packing none shown
15 Kentucky Independent Packing
250 Fruit Growers Express -various- (double deck)
15 Hunter Packing none shown
15 Emmant Packing " "
5 Omaha Packing Neb
30 Superior Packing none shown (Nebraska?)
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