Refrigerator cars in Northfork

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Thanks to all who replied. Now I can justify some other traffic on my model RR. 

Tom Lewis

> On Nov 7, 2020, at 10:34 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Brian,
> Neither, it was the business behind the scenes that caused their demise. There is a book out there that tells all about it. Unfortunately I  can't get to my books to tell you any more.
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> Jimmy Lisle
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> Date: 11/7/20 8:22 PM (GMT-05:00)
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> Subject: Re: Refrigerator cars in Northfork
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> Were the billboard reefers outlawed because they were wooden or because they were billboards?
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> Brian Gilleran
> Herndon, VA
>> On Nov 6, 2020, at 9:08 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Can't say about the billboard reefers, as they had been outlawed by the time I was watching the N&W in Bluefield; but I do remember seeing the red Swift reefers.
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>> Jim Nichols
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>> On Friday, November 6, 2020, 12:11:47 PM CST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Hello
>> I am rereading the email string from November 2017 about refrigerator cars in Northfork. I am considering reworking my model railroad to include this. Can anyone tell us the cars that would be prototypical and approximate years?  Would the billboard reefers for Swift and Hormel be appropriate?  
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>> My layout uses Y3s and Ms for motive power and I am backdating my car fleet to those appropriate from 1917 to the early forties. 
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>> Thanks in advance. 
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>> Tom Lewis
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