A question about early refrigerator cars

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Thanks Jim, that is interesting.  It was from Bill Welch that I had heard that N&W was the only consortium member that did not contribute cars to the combined fleet.  Thank you for sharing these with me.

Brent

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Brent,

N&W had some early refrigerator cars, Class A-25 (I could never figure out this class designation since at the time N&W was using just alpha for Class designations); see https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/listdocs/select.php?index=rs&id=3066

Here are links to photos at VA Tech Image:

https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2756
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2757

These cars did go to FGEX per Bill Welsh; at the convention last May in Roanoke I copied some documents from the archives and sent them to Bill for the FGEX book he is working on.

IIRC these cars were built new for N&W; I have no clue what they were used for; maybe so others here might be able to shed some light. Hope this helps.

Jim Brewer

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:54 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
I have a question for any of our learned historians.  N&W was an early party to join the Fruit Growers Express consortium, but unlike every other member of the group did not contribute any of its own refrigerator cars to the FGEX fleet.  My question is, what did N&W do with the refrigerator cars it had on its roster?

Now in all honesty, I have never seen a photo of an N&W ice reefer, just a photo of a model that was in the N&W handbook by messers W and W.  I don't have access to any ORER books of that era to see if anything was ever listed.

Did N&W ever roster its own refrigerator cars? And if so, what became of them if they were not transferred to FGEX?

Brent
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