Rick,
I will be curious about the answers. I have seen several places a
color photo of a large number of ART reefers staged in Grand
Junction and this helps explain why.
A 1965 MP Freight Traffic Circular showing a "List of Firms and
Industries having Trackage Facilities at Competitive Points" shows
all of the Fruit and Vegetable receivers in Omaha-Council Bluffs
being served by the UP. This makes sense as the bulk of fresh
produce and fruit into Omaha would be coming from California
points that were served by PFE. So it would suggest that most
traveled UP Denver to Omaha.
It can stated with some certainty that the Q handled some of this
traffic in Kansas City proper. The Q shared with the ATSF and RI
switching duties at the KC Produce Yard located along the Missouri
River in the current City Market area. The Q switcher for this
duty for a long time was a motor car while the ATSF and RI used 44
tonners. The UP started their own produce yard in Kansas City KS
in the late 1930s (this is discussed in Richard Overton's book),
but various court proceedings by the other KC railroads kept it
from being major produce yard in KC.
Watching the video, it is hard to tell what kind of reefers were
in the train. At the time of the video, all of the big reefer
suppliers still had a large number of wood sheathed cars (ART PFE
and SFRD had more steel cars as they started building them in the
mid 1930s - the FGE affiliated roads (BREX, WFEX, etc) and MDT
still were still almost 100% wood sheathed).
Bill Hirt
CB&Q List
Please see email and link below
You might find this interesting as it states some of the
peaches ended up in the Denver to Omaha routing for points
east.
Couple of questions, would the Q handle ART reefers on a
regular basis? Would Burlington reefers be used on a regular
basis for the western slope peaches?
Thanks
Ricky Keil
Papillion, NE
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